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In  Force  June  30t  J899. 


Compiled  by 

THOS.  T.  TYNAN, 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 

Cheyenne,  "Wyoming. 


LARAMIE.  WYO., 
THE  REPUBLICAN  BOOK  AND  JOB  PRINT. 

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SCHOOL  LAWS 


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STATE  OF  WYOMING 


In  Force  June  30,  J899 


Compiled  by 

THOS.  T.  TYNAN, 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 

Cheyenne,  Wyoming. 


LARAMIE.  WYO., 
THE  REPUBLICAN  BOOK  AND  JOB  PRINT. 

1809. 


W.S.3 


School  Laws  of  the  State  of  Wyoming. 


DIVISION  ONE. 
TITLE  III.     STATE  OFFICERS. 

CHAPTER  5. 

SUPERINTENDENT    OF   PUBLIC   INSTRUCTION. 

Sec.  91.    General  duties.  I    Sec.  93.    Distribution   of  school  funds. 

Sec.  92.    Disposition  of  donated  books,  maps 
and  school  apparatus. 

GENERAL  DUTIES. 

Sec.  91.  The  duties  of  superintendent  of  public  instruction  shall 
be  as  follows:  He  shall  file  all  papers,  reports  and  public  documents 
transmitted  to  him  by  the  school  officers  of  the  several  counties,  each 
jear,  separately,  and  hold  the  same  in  readiness  to  be  exhibited  to  the 
governor,  or  to  any  committees  of  either  house  of  the  legislature,  and 
shall  keep  a  fair  record  of  all  matter  pertaining  to  the  business  of  his  of- 
fice. He  shall  have  a  general  supervision  of  all  the  district  schools  of  the 
state,  and  shall  see  that  the  school  system  is,  as  early  as  practicable,  put 
into  uniform  operation.  He  shall  prepare  and  have  printed  suitable 
forms  for  all  reports  required  by  law,  and  shall  transmit  the  same,  with 
such  instructions  in  reference  to  the  course  of  studies  as  he  may  judg£ 
advisable,  to  the  several  officers  entrusted  with  their  management  and 
care.  He  shall  make  all  further  rules  and  regulations  that  may  be  neces- 
sary to  carry  the  law  into  full  effect,  according  to  its  spirit  and  intent, 
which  shall  have  the  same  force  and  effect  as  though  contained  herein. 

[R.   Si '1887,  'Sec.  T3906.] 
DISPOSITION  OF  DONATED  BOOKS,  MAPS  AND  SCHOOL  APPARATUS. 

Sec.  92.  One  copy  of  all  books,  maps,  charts  or  school  apparatus, 
which  may  be  received  by  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  from 
publishers,  inventors  or  manufacturers,  shall  be  placed  by  him  in  the 
public  library  of  this  state. 

[R.   S.  1887,   Sec.  3907.] 
DISTRIBUTION  OF  SCHOOL  FUNDS. 

Sec.  93.  On  or  before  the  thirty-first  day  of  March  in  every  year, 
if  there  shall  be  any  money  to  the  credit  of  the  income  fund,  for  the  use  of 
public  schools  in  the  state  treasury,  including  the  rents  of  the  unsold 
school  lands,  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction  shall  distrib- 
ute such  income  among  the  several  counties  of  the  state  according  to  the 
number  of  children  of  school  age  in  each,  the  same  to  be  determined  by 
reference  to  the  last  preceding  annual  reports  furnished  to  the  state  su- 
perintendent of  public  instruction  by  the  several  county  superintendents 
of  schools.  Such  moneys  so  distributed  shall  be  paid  to  the  county  treas- 

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§180  STATE    OFFICERS.  DIV.   1       TL.   3 

urer  of  each  county  by  the  state  treasurer,  upon  the  requisition  to  that 
effect  by  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  which  said  requi- 
sition shall  state  the  county  entitled  thereto,  together  with  the  amount, 
and  the  fund  out  of  which  it  is  to  be  paid;  and  the  superintendent  of  pub- 
lic instruction  shall  at  the  same  time  notify  each  superintendent  of 
schools  that  such  distribution  has  been  made;  such  requisition  shall  be 
accompanied  by  a  warrant  of  the  auditor  upon  the  treasurer  covering 
the  amount  of  the  requisition  in  each  case,  and  the  superintendent  of  pub- 
lic instruction  shall  file  such  requisition  with  the  auditor  and  a  copj  of 
the  same  with  the  treasurer.  Upon  such  distribution  being  made  and 
said  money  being  paid  to  the  respective  county  treasurers,  the  county 
superintendent  of  schools  in  each  county  shall  cause  such  money  to  be 
distributed  among  the  several  school  districts  in  the  county  pro  ratar 
in  the  same  manner  and  in  the  same  proportion  as  the  regular  county 
school  tax  is  required  by  law  to  be  distributed.  Provided,  however,  That 
any  law  with  reference  to  the  distribution  of  the  county  school  tax  which 
provides  for  a  certain  amount  to  be  paid  to  each  school  district  before  the 
pro  rata  distribution  of  the  balance  is  made  shall  not  apply  in  the  case 
of  the  distribution  of  said  moneys ;  Provided  further,  That  no  apportion- 
ment from  said  state  fund  shall  be  made  to  any  school  district  for  a  year 
in  which  a  school  has  not  been  maintained  therein  for  at  least  three 
months. 

[See  Div.  1,  Tl.  6,  Ch.  3,  Art.  VI.]  [S.  L.  1895,  Ch.  53,  Sec.  1.] 


BIENNIAL  REPORTS  OF  STATE  OFFICERS. 

Sec.  18O.  Biennially,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  November,  imme- 
diately preceding  the  meeting  of  the  legislature,  each  and  every  state  offi- 
cer (except  those  mentioned  in  the  last  preceding  section),  and  each  and 
every  commission  or  board  of  a  state  institution,  shall  report  in  writing 
to  the  governor  of  the  state,  the  condition  of  his  department,  or  its  insti- 
tution, covering  the  period  of  twTo  years  preceding  and  up  to  and  includ- 
ing the  thirtieth  day  of  September  immediately  preceding  the  filing  of 
such  report.  The  reports  thus  required  to  be  filed  shall  be  in  triplicate, 
one  copy  to  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  governor,  one  copy  for  the  use  of 
the  senate,  and  one  copy  for  the  use  of  the  house  of  representatives. 

[S.  L.  1890,  Ch.  5,  Sec.  1.] 


CH.    16 


SUPERINTENDENT    OF    SCHOOLS. 


[1190 


DIVISION   ONE. 
TITLE  X.     COUNTY  GOVERNMENT. 


CHAPTER  16. 

SUPERINTENDENT    OF    SCHOOLS. 


Sec.  1190.  Oath  and  bond— Prohibited  from 
teaching. 

Sec.  1191.    Salary. 

Sec.  1192.    Duties. 

Sec.  1193.  Apportionment  of  taxes  —  Dis- 
trict treasurer's  bond. 

Sec.  1194.    Supplemental   apportionment. 


Sec.  1195.  Boundaries  of  districts  when 
changed — Number. 

Sec.  1196.    Examination  of  teachers— Visits. 

Sec.  1197.    Failure  to  make  report— Penalty. 

Sec.  1198.  Supervisory  and  appellate  au- 
thority. 

Sec.  1199.    County  teachers'  institute. 


OATH  AND  BOND— PROHIBITED  FROM  TEACHING. 

Sec.  119O.  There  shall  be  in  each  organized  county  a  superintend- 
ent of  public  schools,  who  shall,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his 
office,  give  bond  to  the  state  of  Wyoming  in  the  penal  sum  of  five  hun- 
dred dollars  for  the  faithful  performance  of  all, duties  required  of  him  by 
law  as  such  superintendent,  to  be  approved  by  the  board  of  county  com- 
missioners, and  together  with  said  certificate  and  oath,  filed  in  the  coun- 
ty clerk's  office;  Provided,  That  no  person  shall  at  the  same  time  hold  the 
position  of  county  superintendent  of  public  •scfrb'tHs  and  teacher  in  any 
public  school  in  his  or  her  county. 

[R.   S.   1887,   Sec.    1898".] 
SALARY. 

Sec.  1191.  County  superintendents  of  schools  shall  receive  the  fol- 
lowing annual  salaries : 

In  counties  of  the  first  class,  six  hundred  dollars;  in  counties  of  the 
second  class,  five  hundred  dollars;  in  counties  of  the  third  class,  four 
hundred  dollars;  and  in  counties  of  the  fourth  class,  three  hundred  dol- 
lars, together  with  his  actual  and  necessary  traveling  expenses  while 
engaged  in  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties,  the  account  for  which  ex- 
penses, before  being  allowed,  shall  be  stated  in  separate  items,  accom- 
panied by  vouchers  or  receipts  for  all  items  amounting  to  five  dollars  or 
more,  and  otherwise  made  conformable  to  the  law. 

[S.  L.  1895,  Ch.  76,  Sees.  6  and  14.] 
DUTIES. 

Sec.  1192.  The  duties  of  the  county  superintendent  of  schools  shall 
be  as  follows:  He  shall  on  the  first  Monday  of  October  in  each  year, 
transmit  to  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction  a  report,  containing 
an  abstract  of  the  several  particulars  set  forth  in  the  reports  of  the  dis- 
trict clerks,  together  with  a  statement  of  the  financial  affairs  of  his  of- 
fice, and  such  suggestions  as  he  shall  think  proper,  relative  to  the  schools 
of  his  county;  he  shall  distribute  to  the  districts  within  his  county  such 
blank  forms,  circulars  and  other  communications  as  may  be  transmitted 
to  him  for  that  purpose,  by  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction. 

[S.   L.  1895,  Ch.  44,   Sec.  1.] 

Powder  River  Cattle  Company  vs.  Board  Commissioners,  3  Wyo.  597. 
Baldwin  vs.  Wickman,  3  Wyo.  208. 


'§1193  COUNTY   GOVERNMENT.  DIV.  1      TL.   10 

APPORTIONMENT  OF  TAXES— DISTRICT  TREASURER'S  BOND. 

Sec.  1193.  On  the  first  Monday  of  December,  annually,  he  shall 
apportion  the  county  school  tax  and  all  money  in  the  county  treasury, 
belonging  to  the  school  fund,  in  the  following  manner:  Each  school  dis- 
trict in  his  county  shall  be  apportioned  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars  for  the  payment  of  teachers  in  such  district,  and  all  moneys  re- 
maining after  such  apportionment  shall  be  apportioned  to  each  district 
pro  rata,  in  accordance  with  the  number  of  pupils  in  attendance  at  the 
schools  of  said  district,  reported  to  him  by  the  several  district  clerks; 
Provided  always,  That  each,  every  and  all  poll  taxes,  levied  and  collected 
for  school  purposes,  in  each  school  district  in  this  state,  shall,  when  col- 
lected by  the  county  treasurer,  be  paid  over  to  the  treasurer  of  the  school 
district  in  which  the  persons  respectively  reside,  who  paid  such  poll  tax, 
and  the  said  poll  taxes  shall  not  be  divided  among  the  school  districts  of 
the  county  pro  rata  to  the  number  of  scholars  in  such  school  district, 
but  the  poll  taxes  so  collected  from  the  inhabitants  of  each  school  dis- 
trict shall  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  the  district  in  which  they  severally 
reside,  for  the  support  of  the  schools  of  such  district;  no  district  shall 
be  entitled  to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  for  the  pay- 
ment of  teachers,  besides  the  pro  rata  apportionment  as  provided  in  this 
section,  when  there  are  less  than  eight  scholars  of  school  age  in  said  dis- 
trict; he  shall  record  a  statement  of  such  apportionment  in  his  office,  and 
he  shall  also  notify  the  county  treasurer  of  the  same;  he  shall  immedi- 
ately draw  an  order  on  the  county  treasurer,  in  favor  of  the  treasurer  of 
each  district  for  the  amount  of  its  proportion,  and  transmit  the  same  to 
the  treasurer  of  the  district;  Provided,  Such  district  treasurer  shall  have 
given  his  official  bond,  which  draft  the  county  treasurer  shall  pay  to  the 
district  treasurer  on  presentation  of  the  draft  properly  endorsed. 

[S.  L.  1895,  Ch.  44,   Sec.  1.] 

Powder  River  Cattle  Co.   vs.   Board  Commissioners,  3  Wyo.  597. 
Baldwin  vs.  Wickman,  3  Wyo.  208. 

SUPPLEMENTAL  APPORTIONMENT. 

Sec.  1194.  Should  no  apportionment  of  the  school  funds  be  made 
on  the  first  Monday  in  December,  as  required  in  this  chapter,  he  may 
make  an  apportionment  as  soon  thereafter  as  practicable,  in  the  same 
manner  as  hereinbefore  provided.  He  may  also  make  a  supplementary 
apportionment  of  the  money  in  the  county  school  fund  at  any  time  after 
the  first  Monday  in  December,  prior  to  the  first  of  the  following  June, 
and  such  supplementary  apportionment  shall  be  pro  rata,  according  to 
the  number  of  pupils  in  attendance  in  any  and  all  schools  in  each  dis- 
trict, as  reported  to  him  by  the  several  district  clerks  in  their  last  annual 
reports. 

[S.  L.   1895,    Ch.  44,   Sec.  1.] 

Powder  River  Cattle  Co.   vs.  Board  Commissioners,  3  Wyo.  597. 
Baldwin  vs.  Wickman,  3  Wyo.  208. 

BOUNDARIES  OF  DISTRICTS  WHEN  CHANGED— NUMBER. 

Sec.  1195.  He  shall  divide  the  county  into  school  districts,  and 
may  alter  and  change  the  boundaries  of  districts  thus  formed,  from  time 
to  time  as  the  convenience  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  aforesaid  district 
may  require,  and  shall  proceed  to  make  such  change  at  any  time,  when 
petitioned  by  two-thirds  of  the  legal  voters  of  any  district:  Provided, 
That  the  number  of  districts  in  any  county  whose  population  is  less  than 
ten  thousand,  shall  not  exceed  twenty-five;  and  in  case  the  number  of  dis- 
tricts in  any  county  exceeds  the  proportion  above  stated,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  superintendent  of  such  county,  immediately  to  re-district 

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•CH.  16  SUPERINTENDENT   OF   SCHOOLS.  §1196 

such  county  in  accordance  herewith.  And  the  county  superintendent 
of  schools  shall  abolish  or  join  in  a  contiguous  district,  any  school  district 
in  which  no  school  has  been  maintained  for  twelve  consecutive  months, 
and  all  funds  to  the  credit  of  such  district  so  abolished  or  joined  to  an- 
other district,  shall  be  returned  to,  and  become  a  part  of  the  general 
school  fund  of  the  county :  Provided,  That  nothing  in  this  chapter  shall 
be  so  construed  as  to  prevent  the  county  superintendent  of  schools  from 
joining  any  school  district  (having  less  than  eight  pupils)  to  any  other 
school  district  lying  contiguous  thereto,  if,  in  the  judgment  of  said  sup- 
erintendent, it  will  be  for  the  benefit  of  the  public  schools,  to  so  join  such 
districts. 

[S.  L.  1895,   Ch.  44,  Sec.  1.] 

Powder  River  Cattle  Co.  vs.  Board  Commissioners,  3  Wyo.  597. 
Baldwin  vs.  Wickman,  3  Wyo.  208. 

EXAMINATION  OF  TEACHERS— VISITS. 

Sec.  1196.  He  shall  examine  every  person  offering  himself  or  herself 
as  a  teacher  of  public  schools  under  the  provisions  of  section  six  hundred 
.and  thirty-one,  and  if  in  his  opinion  such  person  is  qualified  to  teach  a 
public  school,  shall  give  him  or  her  a  certificate  as  provided  for  in  sec- 
tions six  hundred  and  twenty-seven  and  six  hundred  and  twenty-eig^t, 
authorizing  him  or  her  to  teach  a  public  school  in  his  county.  He  shall 
have  the  general  superintendence  of  the  schools  of  his  county,  and  shall 
visit  each  school  at  least  once  each  term,  and  shall  have  power  to  dismiss 
all  teachers  he  may  find  to  be  incompetent. 

[S.  L.  1895,   Ch.  44,  Sec.  1.] 

Powder  River  Cattle  Co.   vs.   Board  Commissioners,  3  Wyo.  597. 
Baldwin  vs.  Wickman,  3  Wyo.  208. 

FAILURE  TO  MAKE  REPORT— PENALTY. 

Sec.  1197.  Should  he  fail  to  make  his  reports,  as  required  in  this 
chapter,  he  shall  forfeit  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars,  and  suit  shall  be 
brought  on  his  official  bond  for  the  collection  of  the  same,  with  damages, 
by  the  prosecuting  attorney. 

[R.  S.  1887,  Sec.  3915.] 
SUPERVISORY  AND  APPELLATE  AUTHORITY. 

Sec.  111)8.  He  shall  see  that  the  annual  reports  of  the  clerks  of  the 
several  school  districts  in  his  county  are  made  correctly  and  in  due  time, 
and  shall  hear  and  determine  all  appeals  from  the  decision  of  the  district 
boards. 

[R.  S.   1887,   Sec.  3917.] 
COUNTY  TEACHERS'  INSTITUTE. 

Sec.  1199.  The  county  superintendent  of  public  schools  shall  hold 
annually,  at  some  convenient  place,  a  county  teachers'  institute  for  the 
instruction  and  advancement  of  teachers.  Said  institute  shall  continue 
not  less  than  four  days  nor  more  than  five  days.  The  county  superin- 
tendent shall  preside  at  all  meetings,  and  determine  the  time  and  place 
for  holding  such  institute.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  teachers  actually 
engaged  in  teaching  in  such  county  to  attend  such  institute  unless  they 
shall  have  a  written  excuse,  signed  by  the  county  superintendent.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  each  district  board  to  pay  all  teachers  who  attend  such 
institute,  the  same  salary  per  day  they  would  have  paid  had  the  same 
amount  of  time  been  spent  in  teaching.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county 
board  of  commissioners  in  each  county,  to  appropriate  annually  the  sum 
of  one  hundred  dollars  for  the  payment  of  such  instructors  or  lecturers 
as  the  county  superintendent  may  employ  to  assist  him  in  holding  the 
county  institute. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sub.  Div.  4,  Sec.  1.] 


}4:85  EDUCATIONAL   INSTITUTIONS.  DIV.   1      TL. 


DIVISION     ONE. 
TITLE  VI.     EDUCATIONAL  INSTITUTIONS. 


CHAPTER  1.    THE    UNIVERSITY  OF  WYOMING. 
CHAPTER  2.    THE     WYOMING  AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE. 
CHAPTER  3.     PUBLIC      SCHOOLS. 


CHAPTER  1. 

THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  WYOMING. 


Sec.  485.  Establishment. 

Sec.  486.  Object   of. 

Sec.  487.  Departments. 

Sec.  488.  Board  of  trustees. 

Sec.  489.  Appointment— Term  of  office. 

Sec.  490.  Powers   of  the  board  of  trustees. 

Sec.  491.  Board  to  prescribe  government. 

Sec.  492.  Report  of  trustees. 

Sec.  493.  The  faculty  and   its  power. 

Sec.  494.  Duty  and  power  of  the  president. 

Sec.  495.  Secretary   shall   take   oath  of   of- 
fice. 


Sec.  496.    Secretary   may   administer   oaths 

Sec.  497.    Tuition. 

Sec.  498.    Diploma. 

Sec.  499.  Acceptance  of  congressional  ap- 
propriation. 

Sec.  500.  Experiment  stations— Appropria- 
tion. 

Sec.  501.  Legislature  shall  make  appropria- 
tion. 

Sec.  502.  Appropriation  for  experiment  sta- 
tions—How used. 

Sec.  503.    Appropriation— How   expended. 


ESTABLISHMENT. 

Sec.  485.  There  is  established  in  this  state,  at  the  city  of  Laramie, 
an  institution  of  learning  under  the  name  and  style  of  "The  University  of 
Wyoming." 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  75,  Sec.  1.] 
OBJECT  OF. 

Sec.  486.  The  objects  of  such  university  shall  be  to  provide  an  ef- 
ficient means  of  imparting  to  young  men  and  young  women,  without  re- 
gard to  color,  on  equal  terms,  a  liberal  education,  together  with  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  various  branches  connected  with  the  scien- 
tific, industrial  and  professional  pursuits.  To  this  end  it  shall  embrace 
colleges  or  departments  of  letters,  of  science,  and  of  the  arts,  together 
with  such  professional  or  other  departments  as  in  course  of  time  may 
be  connected  therewith.  The  department  of  letters  shall  embrace  a  lib- 
eral course  of  instruction  in  language,  literature  and  philosophy,  together 
with  such  courses  or  parts  of  courses  in  the  college  or  department  of 
science  as  are  deemed  necessary. 

[S.   L.   1890-91,    Ch.    75,    Sec.   2.J 
DEPARTMENTS. 

Sec.  487.  The  college,  or  department  of  science,  shall  embrace 
courses  of  instruction  in  the  mathematical,  physical  and  natural  sciences, 
together  with  such  courses  in  language,  literature  and  philosophy  as  shall 
constitute  a  liberal  education.  The  college  or  department  of  t.hft  arts, 
shall  embrace  courses  of  instruction  in  the  practical  and  fine  arts;  espec- 
ially in  the  applications  of  science  to  the  arts  of  mining  and  metallurgy, 
mechanics,  engineering,  architecture,  agriculture  and  commerce,  together 
with  instruction  in  military  tactics,  and  in  such  branches  in  the  depart- 
ment of  letters,  as  are  necessary  to  a  proper  fitness  of  students  for  their 
chosen  pursuits,  and  as  soon  as  the  income  of  the  university  will  allow, 


CH.   1  THE    UNIVERSITY    OF   WYOMING.  §488 

in  such  order  as  the  wants  of  the  public  shall  seem  to  require,  the  said 
courses  in  the  sciences  and  their  practical  applications  shall  be  expanded 
into  full  and  distinct  schools  or  departments. 

[S.   L.   1890-91,    Ch.   75,    Sec.   2.] 
BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  488.  The  government  of  the  university  shall  vest  in  a  board 
of  nine  trustees  to  be  appointed  by  the  governor,  three,  and  only  three, 
of  whom  shall  at  all  times  be  residents  of  the  county  of  Albany,  together 
with  the  president  of  the  university  and  the  state  superintendent  of  pub- 
lic instruction,  as  members  ex-officio  as  such  having  the  right  to  speak, 
but  not  to  vote. 

[S.   L.    1890-91,   Ch.   75,    Sec.   3.] 
APPOINTMENT— TERM  OF  OFFICE. 

Sec.  489.  The  term  of  office  of  the  trustees  appointed  shall  be  six 
years.  During  each  session  of  the  legislature,  the  governor  shall  nomi- 
nate, and  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  senate,  appoint  suc- 
cessors to  the  three  trustees  whose  term  of  office  shall  have  expired,  or 
will  expire  before  the  next  session  of  the  legislature.  Any  vacancy  in 
the  board  of  trustees  caused  by  death,  resignation,  removal  from  the 
state  or  otherwise,  shall  be  filled  by  appointment  to  be  made  by  the  gov- 
ernor, which  appointment  shall  continue  until  the  next  session  of  the 
legislature,  and  no  longer,  but  no  member  of  the  faculty,  while  holding 
that  position,  shall  ever  be  appointed  a  trustee. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  75,  Sec.  4.] 
POWERS  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  49O.  The  board  of  trustees  and  their  successors  in  office  shall 
constitute  a  body  corporate  by  the  name  of  "The  Trustees  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Wyoming."  They  shall  possess  all  the  powers  necessary  or  con- 
venient to  accomplish  the  objects  and  perform  the  duties  prescribed  by 
law,  and  shall  have  the  custody  of  the  books,  records,  buildings  and  all 
other  property  of  the  university.  The  board  shall  have  power  to  elect 
a  president,  secretary  and  treasurer,  who  shall  perform  such  duties  as  are 
prescribed  in  the  by-laws  of  the  board.  The  treasurer  shall  execute  such 
bond,  with  approved  sureties  in  double  the  sum  likely  to  come  into  his 
hands,  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties  as  the  board  shall  require. 
The  term  of  office  of  said  officers,  their  duties  severally,  and 
the  times  for  holding  meetings,  shall  be  fixed  in  the  by-laws  of  the  board. 
A  majority  of  the  board  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of 
business,  but  a  less  number  may  adjourn  from  time  to  time,  and  all 
routine  business  may  be  entrusted  to  an  executive  committee  of  three 
members,  subject  to  such  conditions  as  the  by-laws  of  the  board  shall 
prescribe.  The  actual  and  necessary  traveling  expenses  of  non-resident 
members  in  attending  the  annual  meeting  of  the  board  may  be  audited  by 
the  audting  committee  thereof,  and  paid  by  warrant  on  the  treasurer 
out  of  the  general  fund  of  the  university. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  75,  Sec.  5.] 
BOARD  TO  PRESCRIBE  GOVERNMENT. 

Sec.  41)1.  The  board  of  trustees  shall  prescribe  rules  for  the  govern- 
ment of  the  university  in  all  its  branches,  elect  the  requisite  officers, 
professors,  instructors  and  employes,  any  of  whom  may  be  removed  for 
cause,  as  well  as  fix  the  salary  and  term  of  office  of  each,  prescribe  the 
studies  to  be  pursued  and  the  text-books  to  be  used,  and  determine  the 
qualifications  of  applicants  for  admission  to  the  various  courses  of  study; 
but  no  instruction  either  sectarian  in  religion  or  partisan  in  politics, 
shall  ever  be  allowed  in  any  department  of  the  university,  and  no  sec- 
tarian or  partisan  test  shall  ever  be  exercised  or  allowed  in  the  appoint- 

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ment  of  trustees,  or  in  the  election  or  removal  of  professors,  teachers  or 
other  officers  of  the  university,  or  in  the  admission  of  students  thereto,  or 
for  any  purpose  whatsoever.  The  board  of  trustees  shall  also  have  power 
to  confer  such  degrees  and  grant  such  diplomas  as  are  usual  in  universi- 
ties, or  as  they  shall  deem  appropriate;  through  by-laws,  to  confer  upon 
the  faculty  the  power  to  suspend  or  expel  students  for  causes  therein 
prescribed;  to  possess  and  use  for  the  benefit  of  the  institution,  all  pro- 
perty of  the  university;  to  hold,  manage,  lease,  or  dispose  of,  according  to 
law,  any  real  or  personal  estate,  as  shall  be  conducive  to  the  welfare  of 
the  institution;  to  expend  the  income  placed  under  their  control,  from 
whatever  source  derived,  and  finally  to  exercise  any  and  all  other  func- 
tions properly  belonging  to  such  a  board  and  necessary  to  the  prosperity 
of  the  university  in  all  of  its  departments. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  75,  Sec.  6.] 
REPORT  OF  TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  492.  At  the  close  of  each  scholastic  year,  (June  30th,)  the  trus- 
tees of  the  University  of  Wyoming,  through  their  president,  shall  make 
a  report  in  detail  to  the  governor,  exhibiting  the  progress,  condition  and 
wants  of  the  university,  and  of  each  school  or  department  thereof;  the 
course  of  study  in  each,  the  number  of  professors  and  students,  together 
with  the  nature,  costs  and  results  of  important  investigations,  and  such 
other  information  as  they  deem  important,  or  as  may  be  required  by  any 
law  of  this  state,  or  of  the  United  States.  Accompanying  such  report, 
and  as  a  part  thereof,  the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees shall  unite  in  an  itemized  report  showing  the  amount  of  receipts  and 
disbursements  for  the  year,  as  had  and  made  by  said  board,  showing  the 
appropriation  resolution  for  that  year,  showing  clearly  the  purposes  for 
which  the  same  have  been  expended,  and  the  amount  thereof  expended 
upon  each  school  or  department  of  work,  including  the  experiment  sta- 
tion. Such  reports  are  to  be  printed  and  not  less  than  one  hundred  copies 
thereof  filed  with  the  secretary  of  state  for  distribution  among  the  mem- 
bers of  the  legislature  and  other  public  officers. 

[S.   L.   1899,  Ch.  51,  Sees.  1  and  2.] 
THE  FACULTY  AND  ITS  POWER. 

Sec.  493.  The  president  and  professors  of  the  university  shall  be 
styled  "the  faculty,"  and  shall  have  power,  as  such  body,  to  enforce  the 
rules  and  regulations  adopted  by  the  trustees  for  the  government 
of  students,  to  reward  and  censure  students  as  they  may  deserve, 
and  generally  to  exercise  such  discipline,  in  harmony  with  the 
said  regulations,  as  shall  be  necessary  for  the  good  order  of  the 
institution;  to  present  to  the  trustees  for  degrees  and  honors  such 
students  as  are  entitled  thereto,  and  in  testimony  thereof,  when 
ordered  by  the  board,  suitable  diplomas,  certificates  or  other  testimonials 
under  seal  of  the  university,  and  the  signatures  of  the  faculty.  When,  in 
course  of  time,  distinct  colleges  or  departments  of  the  university  are  duly 
organized  and  in  active  operation,  the  immediate  government  of  such  de- 
partments shall,  in  like  manner,  be  entrusted  to  their  respective  faculties. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,   Ch.   75,   Sec.  8.] 
DUTY  AND  POWER  OF  PRESIDENT. 

Sec.  494.  The  president  of  the  university  shall  be  president  of  the 
several  faculties  and  the  executive  head  of  all  the  departments.  As  such, 
subject  to  the  board  of  trustees,  he  shall  have  authority  to  give  general 
direction  to  the  instruction  and  investigations  of  the  several  schools  and 
departments,  and,  so  long  as  the  interests  of  the  institution  require  it, 
he  may  be  charged  with  the  duties  of  one  of  the  professorships. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.   75,   Sec.  9.] 

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UNIVERSITY 

THE    UNIVERSITY    OF   WYOIIUN^  §495 

SECRETARY  SHALL  TAKE  OATH  OF  OFFICE. 

Sec.  495.  The  secretary  of  the  board  of  trustees,  of  the  University 
of  Wyoming,  shall  be  required  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  said 
office,  to  take  the  oath  of  office  provided  for  elective  officers  under  the 
constitution  of  this  state. 

[S.  L.  1897,  Ch.  24,   Sec.  1.] 
SECRETARY  MAY  ADMINISTER  OATHS. 

Sec.  496.  The  secretary  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  University  of 
Wyoming,  is  hereby  authorized  to  administer  oaths  and  affirmations  to 
any  person  or  persons,  in  connection  with  the  business  of  the  said  Univer- 
sity of  the  State  of  Wyoming. 

[S.  L.  1897,  Ch.  24,  Sec.  2.] 
TUITION. 

Sec.  497.  To  the  end  that  none  of  the  youth  of  the  state  who  crave 
the  benefits  of  higher  education  may  be  denied,  and  that  all  may  be  en- 
couraged to  avail  themselves  of  the  advantages  offered  by  the  university, 
tuition  shall  be  as  nearly  free  as  possible,  and  it  shall  be  wholly  free  to 
such  students  from  each  county  as  are  selected  and  appointed  by  the 
board  of  countv  commissioners  therein. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  75,  Sec.  10.] 
DIPLOMA. 

Sec.  498.  After  any  student  has  been  graduated  from  either  of  the 
chief  departments  of  the  university,  and  received  the  degree  of  bachelor 
of  arts,  of  letters,  of  philosophy,  or  of  science,  and  has  had  a  subsequent 
experience  as  a  successful  teacher  of  a  public  school  in  Wyoming  for  a 
period  of  one  school  year,  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction 
shall  have  authority  to  countersign  the  diploma  of  such  teacher  after 
such  examination  as  to  moral  character,  learning  and  ability  to  teach  as 
to  the  said  superintendent  may  seem  proper;  and  such  graduate  so 
tested  shall,  after  his  diploma  has  been  so  countersigned  by  the  state  sup- 
erintendent, as  aforesaid,  be  deemed  qualified  to  teach  any  of  the  public 
schools  of  this  state,  and  the  diploma  so  countersigned  shall  be  his  certi- 
ficate of  such  qualification  until  annulled  by  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  instruction. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  75,  Sec.  11.] 
ACCEPTANCE  OF  CONGRESSIONAL  APPROPRIATION. 

Sec.  499.  The  University  of  Wyoming  having  been  designated  by 
the  secretary  of  the  interior  as  the  proper  institution  to  receive  and  ex- 
pend the  moneys  appropriated  by  an  act  of  congress,  approved  August 
thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety,  entitled,  "An  Act  to  apply  a  por- 
tion of  the  proceeds  of  the  public  lands  to  the  more  complete  endowment 
and  support  of  the  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic 
arts,  established  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  congress,  approved 
July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,"  until  such  time  as  there 
may  be  an  agricultural  college  established  in  this  state,  separate  and 
apart  from  said  University  of  Wyoming,  assent  is  hereby  given  to  all  the 
terms  and  conditions  of  the  said  act  of  congress  and  the  grants  of  money 
authorized  and  made  by  said  act  are  hereby  assented  to  and  accepted  by 
the  state  of  Wyoming.  The  treasurer  of  the  state  of  Wyoming  is  hereby 
designated  as  the  proper  officer  to  accept  and  receive  said  moneys  so 
granted  by  said  act  of  congress,  and  to  disburse  the  same  in  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  section  two,  of  the  said  act  of  congress. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  74,  Sees.  1  and  2.] 
EXPERIMENT  STATIONS— APPROPRIATION. 

Sec.  5OO.  The  University  of  Wyoming  having  been  designated  by 
the  secretary  of  the  interior  as  the  proper  institution  to  receive  and  ex- 

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pend  the  moneys  appropriated  by  an  act  of  congress  approved  August 
thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety,  entitled  "An  act  to  apply  a  por- 
tion of  the  proceeds  of  the  public  lands  to  the  more  complete  endowment 
and  support  of  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic 
arts,  established  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  congress  approved 
July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,"  until  such  time  as  there 
may  be  an  agricultural  college  established  in  this  state,  separate  and 
apart  from  the  said  University  of  Wyoming,  assent  is  hereby  given  to  all 
the  terms  and  conditions  of  said  act  of  congress,  and  grants  of  money 
authorized  and  made  by  said  act,  by  the  act  of  March  second,  eighteen 
hundred  and  eighty-seven,  relative  to  the  establishment  of  agricultural 
experiment  stations,  or  any  other  act  for  like  purposes,  are  hereby  as- 
sented to  and  accepted  by  the  state  of  Wyoming.  Except  where  other 
designation  is  made  by  congress,  all  moneys  granted  or  donated  by 
congress  in  aid  of  scientific  instruction  or  experimentation,  and  set  apart 
by  the  legislature  for  such  use  by  the  University  of  Wyoming,  shall  be 
accepted  and  received  by  the  state  treasurer,  and  by  him  placed  at  the 
disposal  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  said  university  by  transfer  to  the 
treasurer  of  said  board,  for  disbursement  in  accordance  with  the  provis- 
ions of  the  act  or  acts  of  congress  aforesaid. 

[S.   L.   1890-91,    Ch.   75,   Sec.   13.] 
LEGISLATURE  SHALL  MAKE  APPROPRIATION. 

Sec.  5O1.  There  shall  be  appropriations  made  by  the  legislature  of 
the  moneys  intended  for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  the  University 
of  Wyoming,  and  such  appropriations  shall  specify  as  nearly  and  accur- 
ately as  the  same  can  be  done,  the  specific  purposes  for  which  such 
moneys  are  intended  and  may  be  used.  Such  appropriations  shall  apply 
to  and  include  all  moneys  received  by  the  university  from  the  United 
States  for  the  endowment  and  support  of  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agri- 
culture and  mechanic  arts;  but  moneys  so  received  from  the  United 
States  shall  be  appropriated,  applied  and  used  solely  for  the  purpose 
specified  in  the  acts  of  congress  regulating  the  same.  No  expenditure 
shall  be  made  in  excess  of  such  appropriation,  and  no  moneys  so  appro- 
priated shall  be  used  for  any  purpose  other  than  that  for  which  they  are 
appropriated. 

[S.  L.  1895,   Ch.  110,  Sec.  1.] 
APPROPRIATION  FOR  EXPERIMENT  STATIONS— HOW  USED. 

Sec.  5O2.  The  moneys  received  under  an  act  of  congress,  approved 
March  2, 1887,  entitled,  "An  Act  to  establish  agricultural  experiment  sta- 
tions in  connection  with  the  colleges  established  in  the  several  states 
under  the  provisions  of  an  act  approved  July  2,  1862,  and  of  the  acts  sup- 
plementary thereto,"  shall  be  ar>propriated,  used  and  expended  pursuant 
to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and  not  otherwise. 

[S.  L.  1895,   Ch.  109,   Sec.  1.] 
APPROPRIATION— HOW  EXPENDED. 

Sec.  5O3.  The  trustees  of  the  university  or  college  at  Laramie, 
Wyoming,  in  connection  with  which  such  experimental  station  is  estab- 
lished shall  annually,  by  resolution,  specifically  appropriate  and  desig- 
nate the  uses  to  which  such  money  shall  be  applied  and  the  purposes  for 
which  the  same  shall  be  expended.  Such  uses  and  purposes  at  all  times 
to  be  within  the  use  and  purpose  for  which  such  money  is  donated  under 
the  acts  of  congress  regulating  the  same,  and  no  part  of  such  money  shall 
be  used  or  expended  in  any  manner  or  for  any  purpose  not  covered  by 
such  appropriation,  and  no  indebtedness  shall  be  contracted  or  expend- 
iture made  in  excess  of  such  appropriation. 

[S.   L.   1895,   Ch.  109,   Sec.  2.] 

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CH.  2  THE   WYOMING   AGRICULTURAL   COLLEGE.  §504 

CHAPTER  2. 

THE  WYOMING  AGRICULTURAL,  COLLEGE. 

Sec.  513.  No  religious  test. 

Sec.  514.  Who    to    be     admitted     free       of 

charge. 

Sec.  515.  Donations— Management  of. 

Sec.  516.  Treasurer  to  give  bond. 

Sec.  517.  Duty  of  secretary. 

Sec.  518.  Duty  of  treasurer. 

Sec.  519.  Board  of  visitors— Duty. 

Sec.  520.  Funds— How   invested. 

Sec.  521.  Limitation    upon   investment. 

Sec.  522.  Interest— How  used. 


Sec.  504.    Establishment  of   an  agricultural 

college. 

Sec.  505.    Objects. 
Sec.  506.    Government— Trustees. 
Sec.  507.    Term  of  office— Appointment. 

Sec.  508.    Vacancy How    filled. 

Sec.  509.    Quorum  and  meetings. 

Sec.  510.    Power  of   the   board. 

Sec.  511.    The  faculty  and  their  powers. 

Sec.  512.    Member     of     faculty     cannot     be 

trustee. 


ESTABLISHMENT  OF  AN  AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE. 

Sec.  5O4.  There  shall  be  established  in  this  state  "The  Wyoming 
Agricultural  College,"  which  shall  be  located  by  vote  of  the  people,  and 
which  shall  be  a  state  public  educational  institution. 

[S.   L.  1890-91,   Ch.  92,   Sec.   1.] 

(Under  the   provisions   of  sections   18  to  24  of  chapter  92,  laws  of  1890-91,  said  col- 
lege was  located  by  vote  of  the  people,  in  1892,  at  Lander,  Fremont  county.) 

OBJECTS. 

Sec.  5O5.  The  objects  of  said  agricultural  college  shall  be  to  pro- 
vide an  efficient  means  of  imparting  to  young  men  and  young  women, 
without  regard  to  color,  on  equal  terms,  a  liberal  education  and  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  such  arts  and  sciences  as  will  aid  in  the  prose- 
cution of  agricultural  pursuits  with  their  varied  applications. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  92,  Sec.  2.] 
GOVERNMENT  TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  5O6.  The  government  of  said  agricultural  college  shall  be 
vested  in  a  board  of  five  trustees,  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the  governor, 
by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  senate. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,   Ch.  92,   Sec.   3.] 
TERM  OF  OFFICE— APPOINTMENT. 

Sec.  5O7.  The  term  of  office  of  such  trustees  shall  be  four  years, 
and  during  each  session  of  the  legislature  the  governor  shall  nominate 
and  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  senate,  appoint  succes- 
sors to  such  of  said  trustees  whose  terms  of  office  shall  have  expired  or 
will  expire  during  such  session  of  the  legislature. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  92,  Sees.  4  and  5.] 
VACANCY— HOW  FILLED. 

Sec.  5O8.  Any  vacancy  in  the  said  board  of  trustees  caused  by  death, 
resignation,  removal  from  the  state  or  otherwise,  shall  be  filled  by  ap- 
pointment to  be  made  by  the  governor,  which  appointment  shall  continue 
until  the  next  session  of  the  legislature  and  no  longer. 

[S.    L.   1890-91,   Ch.   92,    Sec.   6.] 
QUORUM  AND  MEETINGS. 

Sec.  5(K>.  A  majority  of  the  said  board  of  trustees  shall  constitute 
a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business,  and  the  said  board  shall  hold 
regular  meetings  at  the  seat  of  the  said  agricultural  college  on  the  first 
day  of  the  months  of  January,  April,  July  and  October  of  each  year. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.   92,  Sec.  7.] 
POWER  OF  THE  BOARD. 

Sec.  51O.    The  said  board  of  trustees  shall  have  power: 

1.  To  elect  one  of  its  members  president  of  said  board. 

2.  To  appoint  a  secretary  and  treasurer  from  among  the  members 
of  such  board  and  such  other  officers  as  it  may  deem  necessary  for  the 
good  order  and  government  of  the  said  agricultural  college,  and  to  pre- 
scribe the  duties  and  fix  the  compensation  of  all  such  officers. 

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3.  To  provide  by  resolution  or  otherwise  for  special  meetings  of 
such  board. 

4.  To  procure  by  purchase,  donation  or  otherwise,  in  the  name  of 
the  state  of  Wyoming,  within  or  near  the  limits  of  the  city,  town  or  vil- 
lage chosen  as  the   seat  of   said  agricultural   college,    a  suitable  site 
upon   which  to   erect   suitable,   convenient    and   proper    buildings   for 
said    agricultural    college,    and    to    superintend    the    erection    of    such 
buildings;  Provided,  That  said  trustees  shall  not  purchase  any  site  or 
contract  for  the  erection  of  any  building  until  the  funds  shall  be  in  their 
hands  with  which  to  pay  for  the  same. 

5.  To  possess  and  use  for  the  benefit  of  the  said  agricultural  col- 
lege, the  buildings  and  sites  that  may  be  provided  therefor. 

6.  To  take  and  hold  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  the  said  agricultural 
college  any  real  or  personal  estate,  and  to  dispose  of  the  same  in  such 
manner  as  they  may  deem  most  conducive  to  the  interests  of  said  agri- 
cultural college. 

7.  To  expend  any  and  all  income  that  may  be  placed  under  the  con- 
trol of  such  board,  by  donations  or  by  law  or  otherwise,  in  such  manner 
as  shall  best  promote  the  interests  and  prosperity  of  the  said  institution. 

8.  To  elect  a  president,  such  professors,  tutors  and  other  officers  of 
the  faculty  of  the  said  institution,  as  they  may  deem  necessary,  who 
shall  hold  their  offices  during  the  pleasure  of  such  trustees. 

9.  To  prescribe  the  duties,  salaries  and  emoluments  of  such  profes- 
sors, tutors  and  officers. 

10.  To  prescribe  the  course  of  study  and  discipline  to  be  observed 
in  said  institution  and  the  price  of  tuition  therein. 

11.  To  make  all  by-laws  and  rules  necessary  and  proper  to  carry  into 
effect  the  powers  herein  conferred. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,   Ch.  92,  Sec.  8.] 
THE  FACULTY  AND  THEIR  POWERS. 

Sec.  511.  The  president,  professors  and  tutors  of  said  agricultural 
college,  shall  be  styled  the  faculty  thereof,  and  as  such  shall  have  power : 

1.  To  enforce  the  rules  and  regulations  adopted  by  the  trustees  of 
said  institution  for  the  government  of  the  students  thereof. 

2.  To  reprove  and  censure  students  as  they  may  deserve,  and  to 
suspend  those  who  continue  refractory  until  a  determination  of  the  board 
of  trustees  can  be  had  thereof. 

3.  To  grant  and  confer,  by  and  with  the  consent  and  approval  of 
the  trustees,  such  literary  honors  and  degrees  as  are  usually  granted  and 
conferred  in  institutions  of  the  same  class  in  the  United  States,  and  in 
testimony  thereof  to  give  suitable  diplomas  under  the  seal  of  the  state 
and  signatures  of  the  faculty. 

[S.    L.    1890-91,    Ch.    92,    Sec.    9.] 
MEMBER  OF  FACULTY  CANNOT  BE  TRUSTEE. 

Sec.  512.  No  member  of  the  faculty  of  the  said  agricultural  col- 
lege, shall,  while  acting  in  that  capacity,  be  a  trustee. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  92,  Sec.  10. 3 
NO  RELIGIOUS  TEST. 

Sec.  513.  No  religious  qualification  or  test  shall  be  required  of  any 
student,  trustee,  president,  professor,  tutor  or  officer  of  said  institution, 
or  as  a  condition  for  admission  to  any  privilege  in  the  same,  and  no 
sectarian  tenets  or  principles  shall  be  taught,  instructed  or  inculcated  at 
said  institution,  by  any  president,  professor  or  tutor  therein. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  92,  Sec.  11.] 
WHO  TO  BE  ADMITTED  FREE  OF  CHARGE. 

Sec.  514.  The  trustees  of  said  institution  shall  provide  for  the  tui- 
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tion,  free  of  charge,  of  such  students  from  each  county  as  may  be  selected 
and  appointed  by  the  board  of  county  commissioners  of  such  county. 

[S.   L.   1890-91,   Ch.  92,   Sec.   12.] 
DONATIONS— MANAGEMENT  OF. 

Sec.  515.  In  the  management  and  application  of  any  property,  real 
or  personal,  granted,  devised  or  bequeathed  to  the  use  of  said  agricul- 
tural college,  or  the  proceeds  thereof,  the  trustees  shall  conform  to  the 
will  and  directions  of  the  donor  thereof,  if  any  such  directions  shall  have 
been  connected  with  such  grant,  devise  bequest  or  donation. 

TREASURER  TO  GIVE  BOND.     '  ^   U  ^    ^    *    *"  ™ 

Sec.  516.  The  trustees  of  said  institution  shall  require  their  treas- 
urer to  give  a  bond  with  sureties  to  be  approved  by  them,  in  double  the 
sum  likely  to  come  into  his  hands. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,   Ch.  92,  Sec.  14.] 
DUTY  OF  SECRETARY. 

Sec.  517.  The  secretary  of  said  board  of  trustees  shall  keep  a  true 
record  of  the  proceedings  of  the  board  and  shall  make  and  certify 
copies  thereof.  He  shall  also  keep  an  account  of  the  students  in  the  in- 
stitution, according  to  their  classes,  showing  their  respective  ages  and 
places  of  residence. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  92,  Sec.  15.] 
BITTY  OF  TREASURER. 

Sec.  518.  The  treasurer  of  said  board  shall  keep  full,  true  and  faith- 
ful accounts  of  all  moneys  received  by  him  as  such  treasurer,  and  of  all 
expenditures  and  disbursements  thereof.  He  shall  pay  out  the  moneys 
received  by  him  as  such  treasurer,  on  the  order  of  the  board  of  trustees, 
certified  by  their  secretary.  He  shall  keep  accurate  accounts  of  all  per- 
sons having  dealings  with  the  institution  for  which  he  is  treasurer.  He 
shall  collect  the  tuition  fees  due  the  same,  and  shall  submit  a  full  and 
proper  statement  of  the  finances  of  such  institution,  of  its  receipts  and 
disbursements,  at  each  of  the  regular  meetings  of  the  said  board,  and  at 
such  other  times  as  said  board  may  direct. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  92,  Sec.  16.] 
BOARD  OF  VISITORS— DUTY. 

Sec.  519.  A  board  of  visitors  for  said  agricultural  college,  to  con- 
sist of  three  persons,  shall  be  appointed  biennially,  at  the  commencement 
of  the  college  year  by  the  governor  of  the  state.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  board  of  visitors  for  said  institution  to  make  a  personal  examination 
into  the  state  and  condition  thereof  and  all  its  affairs,  twice  at  least  in 
each  year,  and  report  the  result  to  the  governor,  suggesting  such  im- 
provements as  they  may  deem  proper,  which  report  shall  be  submitted  to 
the  legislature  at  its  next  session.  Such  visitors  shall  receive  no  com- 
pensation for  their  services. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  92,  Sec.  17.] 
FUNDS— HOW  INVESTED. 

Sec.  52O.  During  such  time  as  the  University  of  Wyoming  shall 
be  and  remain  the  recipient  of  the  funds  donated  by  the  United  States 
government  to  the  state,  under  the  act  of  congress  of  March  2,  1887,  es- 
tablishing agricultural  experiment  stations,  and  the  act  of  congress  of 
Augst  30,  1890,  applying  certain  moneys  in  aid  of  agricultural  colleges, 
and  all  acts  of  congress  amendatory  thereof  or  supplemental  thereto, 
the  treasurer  of  the  state  shall,  upon  the  order  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  said  university,  invest  all  moneys  in  his  hands  derived  or  arising  from 
the  sale,  disposal  or  rental  of  the  lands  or  any  of  them,  donated  to  this 
state  by  congress  for  the  use  and  support  of  an  agricultural  college,  in 

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such  securities  and  loans  as  may  be  unanimously  approved  by  all  the 
trustees  present  at  any  regular  meeting  of  said  board  of  trustees  of  said 
university,  provided,  however,  that  no  profit  or  interest  from  said  loans  or 
investments  shall  be  so  paid  over  for  the  support  of  said  institution  as 
hereinafter  provided,  until  all  loss  or  losses  if  any,  out  of  the  principal 
of  said  funds  shall  be  made  good  and  restored  out  of  the  said  profits  and 
interest;  said  loans  or  investments  to  be  made  in  the  name  of  the  state 
of  Wyoming,  for  the  use  of  the  Agricultural  College  Fund,  the  proceeds 
and  payments  upon  or  derived  from  said  loans  or  investments,  both 
principal  and  interest  to  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  state  for  the  use 
of  said  fund,  the  principal  for  reinvestment  and  the  profit  and  interest  fop 
the  use  of  said  college  as  herein  provided. 

[S.  L.   1899,   Ch.  13,  Sec.  1.] 
LIMITATION  UPON  INVESTMENT. 

Sec.  521.  Said  fund  shall  be  invested  in  bonds  of  the  United  States, 
of  this  state,  or  in  bonds  yielding  not  less  than  five  per  centum  per  annum 
upon  the  par  value  thereof  issued  by  any  county,  municipal  corporation 
or  school  district  of  this  state. 

[S.   L.  1899,   Ch.  13,   Sec.   2.] 
INTEREST— HOW  USED. 

Sec.  522,  The  net  interest  and  profit  received  and  derived  from  any 
loan  or  investment  made  in  pursuance  of  the  authority  conferred  by  the 
last  preceding  section  after  all  loss  or  losses  have  been  made  good  as 
aforesaid  shall,  at  all  times,  be  available  for  use  and  may  be  used  by  the 
board  of  trustees  of  said  university  for  any  purpose  connected  with  the 
supporting  and  maintenance  of  the  Agricultural  college  at  the  University 
of  Wyoming,  not  inconsistent  or  in  conflict  with  any  act  of  congress 
herein  referred  to,  or  any  act  amendatory  thereof  or  supplemental 
thereto. 

[S.   L,.   1899,   Ch.   13,    Sec.    3.] 


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ARTICLE 
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I. 

II. 

III. 

IV. 

V. 

VI. 

VII. 


SCHOOL   DISTRICTS. 
CHAPTER  3. 

PUBLIC      SCHOOLS. 

SCHOOL  DISTRICTS— ORGANIZATION  AND  POWERS. 

DISTRICT  OFFICERS  AND  THEIR  DUTIES. 

SCHOOL   DISTRICT   BONDS. 

REFUNDING  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  BONDS. 

PUBLIC   KINDERGARTEN. 

FREE    TEXT   BoOKS. 

MISCELLANEOUS  PROVISIONS. 


ARTICLE  I. 

SCHOOL,   DISTRICTS— ORGANIZATION  AND   POWKRS. 


Sec.  523.  Notice  of  formation  of  new  dis- 
trict. 

Sec.  524.  Appeal  from  superintendent  on 
formation  of  district. 

Sec.  525.  First  election  of  trustees— Officers 
of  district. 

Sec.  526.  Election  of  trustees  where  number 
increased  to  six. 

Sec.  527.    School  district  seal. 

Sec.  528.     Oath    of   directors. 

Sec.  529.  School  district  to  be  body  cor- 
porate. 

Sec.  530.    Regular  meetings  of  district. 

Sec.  531.    Powers  of   district  meeting. 

Sec.  532.  Objects  in  voting  money  to  be 
designated. 

Sec.  533.    Meeting  may  adopt  rules  of  order. 

Sec.  534.    Transfer   of   school   funds. 

Sec.  535.  Manner  of  conducting  election  of 
trustees. 

Sec.  536.    Qualifications  of  electors. 

Sec.  537.  Annual  election  of  trustees— Dis- 
trict officers. 

Sec.  538.    Directors  shall  qualify. 

Sec.  539.    Meetings  of  board. 


Sec.  540.  Powers  and  duties  of  district 
board. 

Sec.  541.  Members  of  board  may  administer 
oaths. 

Sec.  542.  Authority  of  board  to  admit  or 
remove  scholars. 

Sec.  543.    When  board  to  advertise  for  bids. 

Sec.  544.  Settlement  with  treasurer— Report 
to  district  meeting. 

Sec.  545.    Visiting   committee. 

Sec.  546.    Auditing  and  payment  of  claims. 

Sec.  547.  Special  district  meetings— Requis- 
ites of  notice. 

Sec.  548.  Term  of  existing  appointees  to  fill 
vacancies. 

Sec.  549.    Vacancy  in  board— How  filled. 

Sec.  550.    Bond  of  district  treasurer. 

Sec.  551.    Establishment  of  high  schools. 

Sec.  552.  Separate  schools  for  colored 
children. 

Sec.  553.  Employment  and  payment  of 
teachers. 

Sec.  554.  School  age— Compulsory  educa- 
tion. 

Sec.  555.  Liability  of  parents  and  guardian 
—Authority  of  police  officers. 


NOTICE  OF  FORMATION  OF  NEW  DISTRICT. 

Sec.  523.  Whenever  a  school  district  shall  be  formed  in  any  county, 
the  county  superintendent  of  schools  in  such  county  shall,  within  fifteen 
days  thereafter,  prepare  a  notice  of  the  formation  of  such  district,  de- 
scribing its  boundaries  and  stating  the  number  thereof,  and  appointing 
a  time  and  place  for  the  district  meeting.  He  shall  cause  the  notice,  thus 
prepared,  to  be  posted  in  at  least  five  public  places  in  the  district,  at 
least  ten  days  before  the  time  appointed  for  such  meeting;  and  when  a 
joint  district  is  derived  from  portions  of  two  or  more  counties,  the  county 
superintendent  of  each  county,  from  which  any  portion  of  the  new  dis- 
trict is  taken,  shall  unite  in  giving  the  customary  notices,  and  the  new 
district  shall  be  numbered  by  the  superintendent  of  the  county  having  the 
highest  number  of  districts. 

[R.    S.   1887,   Sec.   3918.] 
Baldwin  vs.  Wickman,  3  Wyo.  208. 

APPEAL  FROM  SUPERINTENDENT   ON  FORMATION  OF  DISTRICT. 

Sec.  524.  A  majority  of  the  voters  in  any  school  district,  being  dis- 
satisfied with  the  formation  of  any  school  district,  shall  have  the  right 
to  appeal  from  the  superintendent  to  the  board  of  county  commissioners, 
and  from  the  board  of  county  commissioners  to  the  superintendent  of 
public  instruction. 

[R.   S.  18S7,  Sec.  3919.] 
FIRST  ELECTION  OF  TRUSTEES— OFFICERS  OF  DISTRICT. 

Sec.  525.  The  qualified  electors  of  a  school  district  when  as- 
sembled in  accordance  with  the  notice  required  in  section 
five  hundred  and  twenty-three,  shall  organize  by  appointing  a 
chairman  and  a  secretary  who  shall  act  as  judges  of  election. 


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They  shall  then  by  ballot  elect  three  trustees  possessing  the  qualifica- 
tions of  electors  of  said  district,  and  the  name  of  each  elector  shall  be 
recorded  by  the  secretary  and  they  shall  hold  their  office  until  the  next 
succeeding  annual  district  election  and  until  their  successors  are  elected 
and  qualified.  The  said  trustees  shall  constitute  a  board  of  directors  for 
the  district  and  shall,  as  soon  as  they  are  qualified,  choose  from  their 
number  a  director,  treasurer  and  clerk  of  the  district. 

[S.  L.  1890,  Ch.  77,  Sec.  1.] 
ELECTION  OF  TRUSTEES  WHERE  NUMBER  INCREASED  TO  SIX. 

Sec.  526.  In  all  school  districts  in  this  state  containing  a  popula- 
tion of  one  thousand  or  more,  the  number  of  trustees  may  be  increased 
to  six  at  any  annual  school  election  held  hereafter  if  the  majority 
of  the  electors  at  such  annual  meeting,  upon  taking  a  vote  by 
ballot  so  decide.  The  electors  shall  then  proceed  by  ballot  to  elect 
one  trustee  for  one  year,  one  trustee  for  two  years  and  two  trustees  for 
three  years.  At  all  annual  elections  held  thereafter  there  shall  be  elected 
two  trustees  who  shall  hold  their  office  for  three  years  or  until  their  suc- 
cessors are  elected  and  qualified. 

[S.  L.  1897,  Ch.  38.] 
SCHOOL  DISTRICT   SEAL. 

Sec.  527.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  board  of  school  directors  so 
increased  to  six  members,  to  provide  at  the  expense  of  their  district,  and 
for  said  district,  a  seal,  upon  which  shall  be  engraved  the  words  "School 

District  No , County,  Wyo.,"  stating  the  number 

of  the  district  and  the  county  in  which  it  is  situated.  The  seal  shall  be 
in  possession  of  the  clerk  of  the  district.  It  shall  be  affixed  to  all  com- 
munications or  notices  required  by  law  to  be  sent  or  published  by  such 
school  board,  and  to  all  warrants  drawn  upon  the  treasurer  of  the  dis- 
trict. 

[R.    S.   1887,    Sec.   3923.] 
OATH  OF  DIRECTORS. 

Sec.  528.  All  directors  of  the  board  shall,  within  ten  days  after  their 
election,  appear  before  some  justice  of  the  peace  or  other  person  qualified 
to  administer  oaths,  and  take  an  oath  for  the  faithful  performance  of 
their  duties  and  in  accordance  with  law  and  shall,  witout  delay,  transmit 
a  copy  of  said  oath  in  writing  to  the  county  superintendent  of  schools. 

[S.  L.  1890,  Ch.  77,  Sec.  2.] 
SCHOOL  DISTRICT  TO  BE  BODY  CORPORATE. 

Sec.  529.  Each  school  district  formed  under  the  provisions  of  this 
title,  is  hereby  declared  to  be  a  body  corporate  by  the  name  and  style  of 

"School  District  No ,  in  the  County  of ,  and  State 

of  Wyoming ;"  and  in  that  name  it  may  hold  property,  and  be  a  party  to 
suits  and  contracts. 

[R.   S.    1887,    Sec.  3925.] 
Powder  River  Cattle  Co.  vs.  Board  Commissioners,  3  Wyo.  597. 

REGULAR  MEETINGS  OF  DISTRICT. 

Sec.  53O.  The  regular  meeting  of  each  school  district  shall  be  held 
on  the  first  Monday  of  May  of  each  year.  And,  when  present,  the  di- 
rector and  clerk  shall  preside  as  chairman  and  secretary  of  such  meeting. 

[R.   S.    1887,    Sec.   3926.] 
POWERS  OF  DISTRICT  MEETING. 

Sec.  531.  The  qualified  electors  of  the  district,  when  assembled,, 
shall  have  power: 

1.  To  appoint  a  chairman  and  secretary,  in  the  absence  of  the  regu- 
lar officers. 

2.  To  adjourn  from  time  to  time,  as  occasion  may  require. 

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CH.  3      ART.   1  SCHOOL   DISTRICTS.  §532 

3.  To  determine  the  number  of  schools  which  shall  be  established 
in  the  district,  and  the  length  of  time  each  shall  be  taught. 

4.  To  fix  the  site  of  each  school  house,  taking  into  consideration 
in  doing  so,  the  wants  and  necessities  of  the  people  of  each  portion  of 
the  district. 

5.  To  vote  such  sum  of  money  as  the  meeting  shall  deem  sufficient 
for  any  of  the  following  purposes :    To  supply  any  deficiency  in  the  fund 
for  the  payment  of  teachers;  to  purchase  or  lease  a  suitable  site  for  a 
school  house,  or  school  houses;  to  build,  rent  or  purchase  a  school  house  or 
school  houses,  and  keep  in  repair  and  furnish  the  same  with  the  necessary 
fuel  and  appendages;  for  procuring  libraries  for  the  schools,  books  and 
stationery  for  the  use  of  the  board  and  district  meetings;  and  for  the 
payment  of  all  other  contingent  expenses  of  the  district;  Provided,  That 
the  sum  of  money  so  voted  shall  not  exceed  ten  mills  on  the  dollar  of  all 
taxable  property  in  each  school  district;  Provided  further,  That  the  tax 
to  be  levied  and  collected,  as  authorized  by  this  section,  shall  not  exceed 
five  mills  on  the  dollar  of  the  assessed  valuation  of  the  taxable  property 
in  any  one  year  in  all  school  districts  having  a  total  valuation  of  pro- 
perty exceeding  three  millions  of  dollars,  or  a  valuation  thereof  of  less 
than  two  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

6.  To  direct  the  sale  or  other  disposition  to  be  made  of  any  school 
house,  or  the  site  thereof,  and  of  such  other  property,  real  or  personal, 
as  may  belong  to  the  district;  and  to  direct  the  manner  in  which  the  pro- 
ceeds arising  therefrom  shall  be  applied. 

7.  To  vote  a  sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  in  any  one 
year,  to  procure  a  district  library,  consisting  of  such  books  as  they  may 
direct  any  person  to  procure. 

8.  To  delegate  any  and  all  powers  specified  in  the  foregoing  sub- 
divisions to  the  district  board,  provided  that  the  district  board  shall  not 
have  power  to  vote  or  raise  money  as  provided  in  sub-division  five. 

9.  To  transact  generally  such  business  as  may  tend  to  promote 
the  cause  of  education  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  title. 

[R.  S.  1887,  Sec.  3927.     S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sec.     12.       S.     L.    1890,     Ch.     77,     Sec.    5.] 
Miller  vs.  School  District,  5  Wyo.  217. 
School   District  vs.   Western   Tube    Co.,  5  Wyo.  185. 

OBJECTS  IN  VOTING  MONEY  TO  BE  DESIGNATED. 

Sec.  532.  In  voting  money,  the  district  meetings  shall  designate 
the  respective  objects  for  which  the  same  is  raised,  and  the  amount  to  be 
raised  for  each  object,  and  the  aggregate  amount  shall  be  assessed  and 
collected,  as  provided  in  this  title. 

[R.  S.  1887,  Sec.  3928.] 
School  District  vs.   Western  Tube  Co.,  5  Wyo.  185. 

MEETING  MAY  ADOPT  RULES  OF  ORDER. 

Sec.  53:1.  They  may  adopt  rules  of  order,  not  incompatible  with  the 
provisions  of  this  chapter  and  the  instructions  of  the  superintendent 
of  public  instruction,  for  the  government  of  district  meetings,  and  may 
alter  and  change  the  some  from  time  to  time  as  occasion  may  re- 
quire, and  may  prescribe  the  manner  of  taking  the  sense  of  the  meet- 
ing upon  any  question;  Provided,  That  the  last  specification  shall  not 
apply  to  the  election  of  officers. 

[R.  S.  1887,  Sec.  3929.] 
TRANSFER  OF  SCHOOL  FUNDS. 

Sec.  534.  In  all  cases  where  there  are  moneys  belonging  to  the 
school  house  fund,  remaining  in  the  hands  of  the -district  treasurer  of 
any  school  district,  and  the  board  of  directors  thereof  are  satisfied  that 
such  moneys  are  not  required  to  build  a  school  house  or  school  houses, 

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§535  EDUCATIONAL   INSTITUTIONS.  DIV.   1      TL.  6 

in  said  district,  or  repair  or  furnish  the  same,  such  moneys  may  be  trans- 
ferred and  accredited  to  the  teachers'  fund,  and  applied  to  the  payment 
of  teachers.  And  the  board  may  also  in  like  manner  transfer  a  surplus 
of  the  teachers'  fund  to  the  fund  for  building  school  houses  when  re- 
quired. 

[R.    S.   1887,   Sec.   3930.] 
MANNER   OF   CONDUCTING   ELECTION   OF    TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  535.  At  the  regular  district  meeting  of  school  districts  in  each 
year,  at  the  time  now  provided  by  law  for  the  election  of  trustees,  such 
district  meeting  shall  be  opened  by  proclamation  of  the  trustees,  at  the 
hour  named  in  the  published  or  posted  notice  for  the  meeting.  And  the 
order  of  business  at  such  meeting  shall  be: 

1.  Reading  and  consideration  of  the  report  of  the  clerk  and  treas- 
urer. 

2.  Voting  of  money  to  be  raised  by  special  tax. 

3.  Election  of  trustee  or  trustees. 

4.  Miscellaneous  business. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  73,  Sec.  1.] 
Powder  River  Cattle  Co.  vs.  Board  Commissioners,  3  Wyo.    597. 

QUALIFICATIONS  OF  ELECTORS. 

Sec.  536.  All  school  district  elections  shall  be  carried  on  as  pro- 
vided by  law,  and  the  qualifications  of  voters  at  such  elections  shall  be 
the  same  as  at  any  other  election. 

[S.   L.  1890,  Ch.  80,  Sec.  179.] 
ANNUAL  ELECTION   OF  TRUSTEES— DISTRICT  OFFICERS. 

Sec.  537.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  by  law  there  shall  be  elected 
in  each  organized  school  district  at  the  regular  annual  district  meeting 
on  the  first  Monday  in  May  of  each  year,  one  trustee,  who  shall  hold  his 
office  for  three  years  and  until  bis  successor  is  duly  elected  and  qualified. 
If,  for  any  cause,  the  annual  election  should  not  be  held  at  the  regular 
annual  meeting,  a  special  meeting  may  be  held  for  that  purpose  if  so 
specified  in  the  notice  for  said  special  meeting.  The  trustees  together 
shall  constitute  a  board  of  directors  for  the  district,  and  shall,  immed- 
iately after  they  are  qualified,  elect  one  of  their  number  a  director,  treas- 
urer and  clerk  of  the  district.  At  the  first  regular  annual  election  after 
a  school  district  is  organized  there  shall  be  three  trustees  elected,  one  to 
hold  his  office  for  the  term  of  three  years,  and  one  to  hold  his  office  for 
the  term  of  two  years,  and  one  for  the  term  of  one  year  and  until  their 
successors  are  elected  and  qualified,  and  thereafter  at  each  such  annual 
meeting  there  shall  be  one  trustee  elected  as  aforesaid,  for  the  term  of 
three  years  as  successor  to  the  out-going  member  of  the  board,  and  all  of 
said  trustees  herein  mentioned  shall  possess  the  qualifications  of  any 
elector  in  said  district,  and  shall  be  elected  by  ballot,  and  the  name  of 
each  elector  voting  for  trustee  shall  be  recorded  by  the  secretary  of  the 
meeting,  and  such  record  shall  be  filed  with  the  district  clerk,. 

[S.  L.  1890,  Ch.  77,  Sec.  3.] 
DIRECTORS  SHALL  QUALIFY. 

Sec.  538.  Said  directors  shall  qualify  in  the  manner  prescribed  for 
directors  elected  upon  the  formation  of  a  new  school  district;  and  in  case 
they  neglect  or  refuse  so  to  do,  they  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  penalty. 

[R.    S.   1887,   Sec.    3934.] 
MEETINGS  OF  BOARD. 

Sec.  539.  The  board  of  directors  may  hold  such  regular,  special  or 
adjourned  meetings  as  they  may  from  time  to  time  determine. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3935.] 
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CH.  3      ART.  1  SCHOOL   DISTRICTS.  §54:0 

POWERS  AND  DUTIES  OF  DISTRICT  BOARD. 

Sec.  54O.  The  district  board  shall  make  all  contracts,  purchases, 
payments  and  sales,  necessary  to  carry  out  every  vote  of  the  district,  for 
procuring  any  site  for  a  school  house,  renting,  repairing  or  furnishing  the 
same,  and  disposing  thereof,  or  for  keeping  a  school  therein,  and  per- 
forming such  other  duties  as  may  be  delegated  to  them  by  the  district 
meeting. 

[R.   S.   1887,   Sec.   3936.] 
School  District  vs.  Western  Tube  Co.,  5  Wyo.  185. 

MEMBERS  OF  BOARD  MAY  ADMINISTER  OATHS. 

Sec.  541.  The  trustees  of  school  districts  are  hereby  severally  au- 
thorized to  administer  oaths  within  their  respective  counties  in  any  and 
all  matters  pertaining  to  their  respective  districts  and  the  business 
thereof,  where  an  oath  is  or  shall  be  required  bv  law. 

[S.   L.   1897,   Ch.   4.] 
AUTHORITY  OF  BOARD  TO  REMOVE  SCHOLARS. 

Sec.  542.  The  district  board  shall  have  power  to  admit  scholars 
from  adjoining  districts,  and  remove  scholars  for  disorderly  conduct;  and 
when  scholars  are  admitted  from  other  districts  the  district  board  may, 
in  their  discretion,  require  a  tuition  fee  from  such  scholars. 

[R.  S.  1887,  Sec.  3937.] 
WHEN  BOARD  TO  ADVERTISE  FOR  BIDS. 

Sec.  543.  Whenever  any  school  house  is  to  be  built  or  any  repairs, 
addition  or  improvement  costing  more  than  two  hundred  dollars  made  to 
any  school  house  or  district  property,  the  board  of  directors  of  the  district 
shall  advertise  for  bids  for  such  work,  and  in  all  cases  contract  the  same 
to  the  lowest  responsible  bidder. 

[R.    S.    1887,     Sec.    3938.] 
SETTLEMENT  WITH  TREASURER— REPORT  TO  DISTRICT  MEETING. 

Sec.  544.  They  shall,  from  time  to  time  examine  the  books  and 
accounts  of  the  treasurer,  and  make  settlement  with  him,  and  shall,  at 
each  regular  meeting  of  the  district,  present  to  the  same  a  full  statement 
of  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  the  district,  and  such  other  matters 
as  may  be  deemed  important. 

[R.    S.   1887,   Sec.   3939.] 
VISITING  COMMITTEE. 

Sec.  545.  They  shall  appoint  a  committee  from  their  own  body  to 
visit  the  respective  schools  of  the  district  monthly,  and  to  aid  the  teachers 
in  establishing  and  enforcing  rules  for  the  government  of  schools,  and 
see  that  the  teachers  keep  a  correct  list  of  the  pupils,  the  time  which 
they  attend  school,  the  branches  of  learning  which  each  is  studying,  and 
such  other  matters  as  may,  in  the  opinion  of  the  board,  tend  to  promote 
the  welfare  of  the  school. 

[R.    S.    1887,   Sec.   3940.] 
AUDITING  AND  PAYMENT  OF  CLAIMS. 

Sec.  546.  They  shall  audit  and  allow  all  just  claims  against  the  dis- 
trict, and  the  directors  shall  draw  an  order  for  all  demands  thus  audited, 
on  the  district  treasurer. 

[R.    S.   1887,    Sec.   3941.] 
SPECIAL  DISTRICT  MEETINGS— REQUISITES  OF  NOTICE. 

Sec.  547.  They  shall,  upon  the  written  request  of  five  legal  voters 
of  the  district,  or  whenever  they  deem  it  expedient,  call  special  meetings 
thereof;  but  in  all  such  cases,  the  notice  of  such  meeting  shall  clearly 
state  the  precise  object  for  which  it  is  called,  and  time  and  place  at 
which  it  is  to  be  held. 

[R.  S.  1S87,  Sec.  3942/j 

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§548  EDUCATIONAL    INSTITUTIONS.  DIV.   1       TL.   6 

TERM  OF  EXISTING  APPOINTEES  TO  FILL  VACANCIES. 

Sec.  548.  In  case  a  vacancy  in  any  district  school  board,  caused  by 
the  resignation,  death  or  otherwise  of  any  one  of  its  members,  is  or  has 
been  filled  by  appointment,  said  appointee  may  legally  hold  such  office 
until  the  next  annual  school  election  following  said  appointment,  but  no 
longer,  and  at  the  annual  election  said  vacancy  shall  be  filled  in  the  same 
way  and  manner  as  authorized  by  law  for  the  annual  election  of  school 
trustees. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3943.] 
VACANCY  IN  BOARD— HOW  FILLED. 

Sec.  549.  When  a  vacancy  occurs  in  any  school  board  by  the  resig- 
nation, death  or  otherwise  of  any  of  its  members,  three  months  or  more 
before  the  following  annual  school  election,  said  vacancy  cannot  be  filled 
by  appointment,  but  a  special  election  must  be  called  in  the  way  provided 
by  law  for  the  purpose  of  filling  such  vacancy;  but  if  such  vacancy  occurs 
less  than  three  months  before  the  next  annual  school  election,  such  va- 
cancy shall  be  filled  by  appointment  by  the  board. 

[R.  S.  1887,   Sec.  3944.] 
BOND  OF  DISTRICT  TREASURER. 

Sec.  55O.  The  district  treasurer  shall  give  bonds  to  the  district  in 
such  penalty  and  with  such  sureties  as  the  board  of  the  county  commis- 
sioners shall  direct  and  approve,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  application 
of  all  money  which  may  come  into  his  hands  by  virtue  of  his  office;  Pro- 
vided, Said  bonds  shall  not  exceed  one  and  one-quarter  times  the  amount 
of  all  the  school  moneys  handled  by  such  treasurer  in  any  one  year.  Said 
penalty  may  be  increased  from  time  to  time  as  the  interests  of  the  dis- 
trict may  require.  The  said  bond,  after  being  approved  by  the  board 
of  county  commissioners,  shall  be  filed  with  the  county  treasurer,  and  it 
is  hereby  made  unlawful  for  the  county  treasurer  to  pay  over  any  sums  of 
money  out  of  the  school  fund  to  any  district  treasurer  until  such  bond 
shall  have  been  approved  and  filed  as  herein  provided,  and  in  case  of  a 
breach  in  the  conditions  of  said  bond,  suit  shall  be  brought  thereon  by 
the  board  of  the  county  commissioners  of  the  county  in  which  the  dis- 
trict is  situated  for  the  benefit  of  said  district. 

[R.    S.   1887,   Sec.   3945.] 
ESTABLISHMENT   OF  HIGH  SCHOOLS. 

Sec.  551.  The  county  superintendent  and  district  board  of  direc- 
tors may  determine  whether  a  school  of  a  higher  grade  shall  be  estab- 
lished in  the  district,  the  number  of  teachers  to  be  employed,  and  the 
course  of  instruction  to  be  pursued  therein,  until  the  meeting  of  the 
teachers'  institute,  provided  for  by  law,  at  which  time  the  institute  shall 
determine  the  studies  to  be  pursued  in  all  schools  of  like  grade  in  the 
state;  and  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction  shall  have  the  same 
power  to  carry  into  effect  the  determination  of  the  institute,  as  is  pro- 
vided in  other  cases;  and  the  board  may  erect,  for  the  purpose,  one  or 
more  permanent  school  houses,  and  shall  cause  such  classification  of  the 
pupils  as  they  may  deem  necessary;  but  in  selecting  the  site  for  such 
school  house  or  school  houses  the  permanent  interest  and  future  welfare 
of  the  people  of  the  entire  district  shall  be  consulted. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.  3946.] 
SEPARATE  SCHOOL  FOR  COLORED  CHILDREN. 

Sec.  552.  When  there  are  fifteen  or  more  colored  children  within 
any  school  district,  the  board  of  directors  thereof,  with  the  approval  of 
the  county  superintendent  of  schools,  may  provide  a  separate  school  for 
the  instruction  of  such  colored  children. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3947.] 

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•CH.  3      ART.   1  SCHOOL   DISTRICTS. 

&U*' 

EMPLOYMENT   AND    PAYMENT   OF   TEACHERS. 

Sec.  553.  The  district  board  shall  employ  all  teachers  necessary 
for  the  schools  of  the  district,  and  pay  them  by  draft  on  the  treasurer. 

[R.   S.  1887,    Sec.   3948.] 
SCHOOL  AGE— COMPULSORY  EDUCATION. 

Sec.  554.  The  district  schools  established  under  the  provisions  of 
this  title  shall  at  all  times  be  equally  free  and  accessible  to  all  children 
resident  therein,  over  six  and  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  subject 
to  such  regulations  as  the  district  board  in  each  district  may  prescribe. 
And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  parents  and  guardians  or  other  persons 
having  the  control  of  children  between  the  ages  above  mentioned,  to  send 
such  children  to  some  school,  at  least  three  months  in  each  and  every 
year,  except  in  case  of  invalids,  and  others  to  whom  the  school  room 
would  be  injurious.  In  such  cases,  the  district  board  shall,  upon  receipt 
of  a  physician's  certificate,  excuse  such  children;  and  the  district  board 
may,  in  its  discretion,  excuse  children  from  attendance  when  a  com- 
pliance with  this  title  would  work  great  hardship.  In  all  such  cases  the 
clerk  of  the  board  shall  state  the  reason  for  excuse,  and  the  name  of  the 
child  or  person  excused,  and  the  length  of  time  for  which  excused,  at 
large  in  the  minutes  of  the  proceedings  of  the  board.  Provided,  That  in 
all  cases  the  applicant  may  appeal  from  the  decision  of  the  board  to  the 
county  superintendent,  whose  decision  shall  be  final. 

[R.   S.   1887,   Sec.   3949.] 

LIABILITY   OF  PARENTS  AND   GUARDIANS-AUTHORITY  OF  POLICE 
OFFICERS. 

Sec.  555.  Any  parent  or  guardian,  or  other  person,  having  children 
in  their  charge  between  the  ages  of  seven  and  sixteen  years,  who  shall 
neglect  or  refuse  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  shall,  on 
conviction,  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  twenty-five  dollars,  for 
each  and  every  offense,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  sheriffs,  constables 
or  police  officers,  at  all  times,  whenever  it  conies  to  their  knowledge  that 
any  child  is  living  idly  and  loitering  about  the  streets  or  thoroughfares 
and  spending  its  time  in  an  idle  and  dissolute  manner,  to  notify  some 
member  of  the  school  board  of  the  district  in  which  such  child  is  living, 
whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  immediately  make  all  the  proper  inquiries  to 
ascertain  the  reasons  for  the  non-attendance  of  said  child  in  some  school 
of  the  county  in  which  such  child  may  be  found  by  said  board.  If  any 
such  child  or  ward  is  wilfully  violating  the  conditions  of  this  law,  it  shall 
become  the  duty  of  the  county  superintendent  of  schools,  on  written 
notice  from  the  board,  to  make  a  complaint  before  some  justice  of  the 
peace  against  the  parent  or  guardian  of  said  child  or  ward,  or  to  make 
complaint  against  such  child  or  ward,  as  provided  in  cases  of  vagrancy, 
under  the  laws  of  this  state. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3950.] 


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ARTICLE  II. 

DISTRICT     OFFICERS     AND     THEIR     DUTIES. 


Sec.  556.  Director  to  preside  at  meetings 
and  countersign  orders. 

Sec-  557.    How  drafts  and  orders  drawn. 

Sec.  558.  By  whom  district  to  appear  in 
actions. 

Sec.  559.    .uuties  of  clerk. 

Sec.  560.    Clerk  to  certify  debt  limit. 

Sec.  561.    Clerks  shall  keep  accounts. 

Sec.  562.    Notice  of  district  meetings. 

Sec.  563.  Annual  report  of  clerk  to  county 
superintendent. 


Sec.  564.    Failure  to  make  report— Penalty. 
Sec.  565.    Duties     of    treasurer— Publication 

of   report. 

Sec.  566.    Teachers'  fund. 
Sec.  567.    School  house  fund. 
Sec.  568.    Treasurer      to      receive      district 

money. 
Sec.  569.    Treasurer  to  render  statement  on 

request. 


DIRECTOR  TO  PRESIDE  AT  MEETINGS  AND  COUNTERSIGN  ORDERS. 

Sec.  556.  The  director,  when  present,  shall  preside  at  all  meetings 
of  the  board  of  the  district,  and  countersign  all  orders  on  the  treasury 
for  the  payment  of  money. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3951.] 
HOW  DRAFTS  AND  ORDERS  DRAWN. 

Sec.  557.  All  drafts  and  orders  drawn  on  the  district  treasurer,  as 
required  in  the  foregoing  section,  shall  specify  the  fund  on  which  they 
are  drawn,  and  the  use  for  which  the  money  is  designed,  and  shall  be 
signed  by  the  district  clerk. 

[R.    S.   1887,    Sec.   3952.J 
BY  WHOM  DISTRICT  TO  APPEAR  IN  ACTIONS. 

Sec.  558.  The  director  shall  appear  in  behalf  of  his  district  in  all 
suits  brought  by  or  against  the  same;  but  when  he  is  individually  a 
party,  this  duty  shall  be  performed  by  the  clerk. 

[R.   S.  1887,   Sec.   3953.] 
DUTIES  OF  CLERK. 

Sec.  559.  The  clerk  shall  record  all  the  proceedings  of  the  board 
and  of  the  district  meetings  in  books  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose,  and 
report  in  writing  to  the  county  superintendent  of  schools  the  name  of  the 
director  and  treasurer  immediately  after  they  are  chosen  or  elected,  and 
he  shall  preserve  copies  of  all  reports  made  to  the  county  superintendent, 
and  shall  file  all  papers  transmitted  to  him,  by  school  officers  or  other 
persons,  pertaining  to  the  business  of  the  district,  and  shall  sign  all 
drafts,'  warrants  and  orders  drawn  by  him. 

[S.  L.  1890,  Ch.  77,  Sec.  4.] 
CLERK  TO   CERTIFY  DEBT   LIMIT. 

Sec.  56O.  The  clerk  of  each  school  district  of  each  county  shall 
endorse  a  certificate  upon  every  bond  or  evidence  of  debt  issued  pursuant 
to  law,  that  the  same  is  within  the  lawful  debt  limit  of  such  school  dis- 
trict, and  is  issued  according  to  law.  He  shall  sign  such  certificate  in 
his  official  character. 

[S.  L.  1890-91,  Ch.  43,  Sec.  2.] 
CLERKS  SHALL  KEEP  ACCOUNTS. 

Sec.  561.  The  district  clerk  shall  keep  an  accurate  account  of  all 
the  expenses  incurred  by  the  district,  and  shall  present  the  same  to  the 
district  board,  to  be  audited  and  paid  as  herein  provided,  out  of  the 
school  fund. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3955.] 
NOTICE  OF  DISTRICT  MEETINGS. 

Sec.  562.  The  district  clerk  shall  give  ten  days  previous  notice  of 
all  regular  and  special  meetings  of  the  district,  herein  authorized,  by 
posting  up  a  written  notice  in  three  different  places  therein;  and  shall 
furnish  a  copy  of  the  same  to  the  teachers  of  each  school  in  the  district, 
to  be  read  once  in  the  presence  of  the  pupils  thereof. 

[R.  S.  1887,  Sec.  3956.}' 


CH.  3      ART.   2  DISTRICT   OFFICERS.  §563 

ANNUAL  REPORT  OF  CLERK  TO  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT. 

Sec.  563.  The  district  clerk  shall,  on  the  first  Monday  of  September 
in  each  year,  submit  a  report  to  the  county  superintendent,  for  the  year 
past,  then  ending: 

1.  Of  the  number  of  schools  taught  in  such  district,  the  number  of 
days  each  scholar  attended  the  same,  and  the  aggregate  number  of  days 
of  attendance  of  said  school  respectively,  as  certified  by  the  teachers  of 
the  several  schools  of  such  district. 

2.  The  number  of  schools  and  the  branches  taught  in  each. 

3.  The  number  of  pupils  in  each  school,  and  of  each  sex. 

4.  The  number  of  teachers  employed  in  each  school,  and  the  average 
compensation  of  each  per  month. 

5.  The  number  of  days  the  school  has  been  taught,  and  by  whom. 

6.  The  average  cost  of  tuition  for  a  pupil,  per  month,  in  each  school. 

7.  Books  used  in  each  school. 

8.  The  number  of  volumes  in  the  library  of  each  school. 

9.  The  aggregate  amount  paid  teachers  during  the  year,  the  source 
from  which  the  same  was  received,  and  the  amount  of  the  teachers'  fund 
in  the  hands  of  the  treasurer. 

10.  The  number  "of  district  school  houses,  and  the  cost  of  each. 

11.  The  amount  raised  in  the  district  by  tax,  for  the  erection  of 
school  houses,  and  for  other  purposes  authorized  in  this  title,  and  such 
other  information  as  he  may  deem  useful. 

[R.    S.   1887,   Sec.   3957.3 
FAILURE  TO   MAKE  REPORT— PENALTY. 

Sec.  564.  Should  the  clerk  fail  to  file  his  report,  as  above  directed, 
he  shall  forfeit  the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars,  and  shall  be  liable  to 
make  good  all  loss  resulting  to  the  district  from  such  failure,  suit  to  be 
brought  in  both  cases  by  the  director,  in  the  name  of  the  district,  on  his 
official  bond. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3958.} 
DUTIES  OF    TREASURER— PUBLICATION   OF  REPORT. 

Sec.  565.  The  treasurer  shall  have  the  custody  of  all  moneys  be- 
longing to  the  district,  and  shall  pay  out  the  same  upon  the  order  of  the 
clerk,  countersigned  by  the  director;  and  shall  keep  an  account  of  the  re- 
ceipts and  expenditures  thereof,  in  a  book  provided  for  that  purpose.  He 
shall  cause  to  be  published  in  some  newspaper  of  general  circulation  in 
the  county  wherein  such  school  district  is  situate,  on  the  first  week  of 
July  in  each  year,  a  full  and  true  report  of  the  receipts  and  disbursements 
of  said  district  for  the  year  next  preceding  such  report. 

[R.   S.   1887,    Sec.   3959.] 
TEACHERS'  FUND. 

Sec.  566.  The  moneys  for  the  payment  of  teachers  shall  be  called 
the  "teachers'  fund,"  and  the  treasurer  shall  keep  distinct  and  separate 
accounts  with  them;  and  no  warrant  for  money  shall  be  paid  by  the 
treasurer  which  does  not  specify  the  fund  on  which  it  is  drawn,  and  the 
specific  use  to  which  it  is  to  be  applied. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3960.  J 
School  District  vs.  Western  Tube  Co.,  5  Vvyo.  185. 

SCHOOL  HOUSE  FUND. 

Sec.  567.  The  school  house  fund  shall  consist  only  of  taxes  collected 
in  the  district;  and  all  other  school  moneys  belonging  to  the  district  shall 
go  to  the  teachers'  fund,  and  shall  be  applied  to  no  other  use  except  to  pay 
the  wages  of  school  teachers  in  the  district. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3961.] 

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TREASURER  TO  RECEIVE  DISTRICT  MONEY. 

Sec.  568.  The  district  treasurer  shall  apply  for,  and  receive  all 
money  apportioned  to  the  district,  by  the  county  superintendent,  when 
notified  of  said  apportionment. 

[R.   S.  1887,  Sec.  3962.] 
TREASURER  TO  RENDER  STATEMENT  ON  REQUEST. 

Sec.  569.  The  district  treasurer  shall  render  a  statement  of  the  fin- 
ances of  the  district  as  shown  by  the  records  of  his  office,  at  any  time 
when  required  by  the  district  board. 

[R.    S.    1S87,    Sec.   3963.] 


ARTICLE  III. 

SCHOOL  DISTRICT  BONDS. 


Sec  570.  Authority  to  call  election  to  de- 
termine upon  issue. 

Sec.  571.    Bond  election— Issue  of  bonds. 

Sec.  572.  Sale  of  bonds— Application  of 
proceeds. 

Sec.  573.    Pledge  for  payment. 

Sec.  574.  Tax  levy  to  redeem  and  pay  in- 
terest. 

Sec.  575.    Redemption. 


Sec.  576.    Payment  of  interest. 

Sec.  577.    Preparation  of  bonds. 

Sec.  578.  Penalty  for  misapplication  of 
funds  by  trustees. 

Sec.  579.  County  treasurer  shall  have  cus- 
tody of  funds. 

Sec.  580.  Additional  bond  of  county  treas- 
urer. • 


AUTHORITY  TO  CALL  ELECTION  TO  DETERMINE  ISSUE. 

Sec.  57O.  The  board  of  school  trustees  of  any  school  district  may, 
whenever  a  majority  thereof  so  decide,  submit  to  the  electors  of  the  dis- 
trict the  question  whether  the  board  shall  be  authorized  to  issue  the 
coupon  bonds  of  the  district  to  a  certain  amount,  not  to  exceed  two  per 
cent,  of  the  taxable  property  in  said  district,  and  bearing  a  certain  rate  of 
interest,  not  exceeding  six  Der  cent,  per  annum,  and  payable  and  re- 
deemable at  a  certain  time,  not  exceeding  twenty-five  years,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  building  one  or  more  school  houses  in  said  district,  and  providing 
the  same  with  necessary  furniture,  and  funding  outstanding  indebted- 
ness evidenced  by  warrant  or  otherwise,  against  said  district. 

[S.   L.   1897,    Ch.   41.1 
BOND   ELECTION— ISSUE   OF   BONDS. 

Sec.  571.  Such  elections  must  be  held  in  the  manner  prescribed  for 
general  or  special  elections  in  school  districts,  and  the  ballots  must  con- 
tain the  words  "Bonds,  yes;"  or  "bonds,  no."  If  the  majority  of  the  votes 
at  such  election  are,  "bonds,  yes,"  the  board  of  trustees  must  issue  such 
bonds  in  such  form  as  the  board  may  direct;  they  must  bear  the  signa- 
tures of  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  and  be  countersigned  by 
the  clerk  of  the  school  district,  and  bear  the  district  seal  and  be  counter- 
signed by  the  county  treasurer,  and  the  coupon  attached  to  the  bonds 
must  be  signed  by  the  president  and  clerk  and  the  county  treasurer. 
And  each  bond  so  issued  must  be  registered  by  the  county  treasurer  in  a 
book  provided  for  that  purpose,  which  must  show  the  number  and 
amount  of  each  bond,  and  the  person  to  whom  the  same  is  issued,  and  the 
said  bonds  must  be  sold  by  the  said  school  trustees,  as  provided  in  sec- 
tion five  hundred  and  seventy-two. 

SALE  OF  BONDS— APPLICATION   OF  PROCEEDS. 

Sec.  572.  The  school  trustees  must  give  notice  in  some  newspaper 
of  general  circulation,  published  in  the  capital  of  this  state,  and  also  in 
some  newspaper  published  in  the  county  in  which  said  school  district  is 
located,  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  four  weeks,  to  the  effect  that  the 
said  school  trustees  will  sell  said  bonds,  briefly  describing  the  same,  and 

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the  time  and  place  where  such  sale  will  take  place;  Provided,  That  the 
said  bonds  must  not  be  sold  for  less  than  their  par  value,  and  the  said 
trustees  are  authorized  to  reject  any  bids,  and  to  sell  said  bonds  at  private 
sale,  if  they  deem  it  for  the  best  interests  of  the  district;  and  all  money 
arising  from  the  sale  of  said  bonds  must  be  paid  forthwith  into  the  treas- 
ury of  the  county  in  which  said  district  may  be  located,  to  the  credit  of 
said  district,  and  the  same  shall  be  immediately  available  for  the  purpose 
of  building  or  providing  the  school  house,  or  school  houses  authorized  by 
this  chapter. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sec.  3.] 
FLEDGE  FOR  FAYMENT. 

Sec.  573.  The  faith  of  each  school  district  is  solemnly  pledged  for 
the  payment  of  the  interest,  and  the  redemption  of  the  principal  of  all 
bonds  which  are  issued  under  this  chapter. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sec.  4.] 
TAX  LEVY  TO  REDEEM  AND  FAY  INTEREST. 

Sec.  574.  The  board  of  county  commissioners  of  the  proper  county  of 
each  district  must  ascertain  and  levy  annually,  the  tax  necessary  to  pay 
the  interest  as  it  becomes  due,  and  a  sinking  fund  to  redeem  the  said 
bonds  at  their  maturity ;  and  said  tax  is  a  lien  upon  the  property  in  said 
school  district,  and  must  be  collected  in  the  same  manner  as  other  taxes 
for  school  purposes.  Said  tax  shall  be  known  as  "district  bond  tax  of 
school  district  No " 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sec.  5.] 
REDEMPTION. 

Sec.  575.  When  the  sum  in  the  sinking  fund  equals  or  exceeds  the 
amount  of  any  bond  then  due,  the  county  treasurer  shall  post  in  his  of- 
fice, a  notice  that  he  wrill,  within  thirty  days  from  the  date  of  such  notice, 
redeem  the  bonds  then  payable,  giving  the  number  thereof,  and  the  pre- 
ference must  be  given  to  the  oldest  issue;  and  if,  at  the  expiration  of  the 
said  thirty  days,  the  holder  or  holders  of  said  bonds,  shall  fail  or  neglect 
to  present  the  same  for  payment,  interest  thereon  must  cease;  but  the 
treasurer  shall,  at  all  times  thereafter,  be  ready  to  redeem  the  same  on 
presentation,  and  when  any  bonds  are  so  purchased  or  redeemed,  the 
county  treasurer  must  cancel  the  same  by  writing  across  the  face  of  each 
bond  in  red  ink,  the  word,  "cancelled,"  and  the  date  of  such  cancellation. 
The  annual  interest  on  all  of  said  bonds  shall  be  payable  at  the  office  of 
the  treasurer  of  the  proper  county  on  the  first  and  ten  succeeding  days  of 
Januarv  in  each  vear. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sec.  6.] 
FAYMENT  OF  INTEREST. 

Sec.  57G.  The  county  treasurer  may  pay  out  of  any  moneys  be- 
longing to  a  school  district  tax  fund,  the  interest  upon  any  bonds  issued 
under  this  chapter  by  such  school  district,  when  the  same  becomes  due, 
upon  the  presentation  at  his  office  of  the  proper  coupon,  which  must 
show  the  amount  due,  and  the  number  of  the  bond  to  which  it  belonged, 
and  all  coupons  so  paid,  must  be  reported  to  the  school  trustees  at  their 
first  regular  meeting  thereafter. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sec.  7.] 
PREPARATION  OF  BONDS. 

Sec.  577.  The  school  trustees  of  any  district,  shall  cause  to  be 
printed  or  lithographed  at  the  lowest  rates,  suitable  bonds,  with  the  cou- 
pons attached,  when  the  same  become  necessary,  and  pay  therefor  out 
of  any  monevs  in  their  treasury. 

'  [S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sec.  8.] 
PENALTY  FOR  MISAPPLICATION  OF  FUNDS  BY  TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  578.    If  any  of  the  school  trustees  fraudulently  fail  or  refuse 

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DIV.  1      TL.  6- 


to  pay  into  the  proper  county  treasury  the  money  arising  from  the  sale 
of  any  bonds  provided  for  by  this  chapter,  they  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of 
felony,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the 
state  penitentiary  for  a  term  of  not  less  than  one  year,  nor  more  than  ten 
years. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sec.  9.} 
COUNTY  TREASURER  SHALL  HAVE  CUSTODY  OF  FUNDS. 

Sec.  579.  The  county  treasurer  of  such  county  shall  have  the  cus- 
tody of  all  funds  realized  from  the  sale  of  said  bonds,  until  the  same  are 
drawn  out  by  the  order  of  the  board  of  directors  of  said  district. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sec.  10.] 
ADDITIONAL  BOND  OF  COUNTY  TREASURER. 

Sec.  58O.  The  board  of  trustees  of  said  district  shall  require  the 
said  county  treasurer  to  give  said  district  a  separate  bond  in  such  sum 
as  said  board  may  deem  proper,  with  two  or  more  sufficient  sureties,  con- 
ditioned for  the  faithful  performance  of  the  duties  required  of  him  by  this 
act,  and  the  faithful  accounting  for  the  moneys  deposited  with  him  and 
realized  from  the  sale  of  said  bonds,  as  herein  provided  for,  and  such 
bonds  shall  be  approved  by  said  board  and  shall  be  and  remain  in  the 
custodv  of  said  board  of  trustees. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sec.  11.} 


ARTICLE  IV. 

REFUNDING    SCHOOL,    DISTRICT    BONDS. 


Sec.  581.  Power  of  board  to  issue  refund- 
ing bonds. 

Sec.  582.    Form  of  bond,  time  and  interest. 

Sec.  583.    Registration  of  bond. 

Sec.  584.    By  whom  signed  and  sale  thereof. 

Sec.  585.    Coupons— Where  paid. 

Sec.  586.    Tax  to  pay  interest  and  principal. 

Sec.  587.  Duty  of  school  directors  as  to  re- 
demption. 


Sec.  588.  Property  in  district  pledged  for 
payment. 

Sec.  589.    Duty  of  county  treasurer. 

Sec.  590.  Funds  realized  from  sale  of  re- 
funding bonds. 

Sec.  591.  Balance  in  the  hands  of  county 
treasurer— How  used. 

Sec.  592.    Surplus— How  used. 


[S.  L.  1893,  Ch.  10,  Sec.  l.J 


POWER  OF  BOARD  TO  ISSUE  REFUNDING  BONDS. 

Sec.  581.  The  board  of  directors  of  each  and  every  school  district 
in  the  state  of  Wyoming  are  hereby  authorized  to  issue  refunding  bonds 
of  such  school  district,  for  the  purpose  of  taking  up  outstanding  bonds  of 
such  school  district,  for  any  sum  not  exceeding  the  amount  of  outstand- 
ing bonds;  Provided,  That  the  qualified  electors  of  any  school  district 
shall  so  elect  and  determine  at  any  regular  meeting,  or  at  any  special 
meeting,  held  for  such  purpose. 

Miller  vs.  School  District,  5  Wyo.  217. 
FORM  OF  BOND,  TIME  AND  INTEREST. 

Sec.  582.  Said  bonds  shall  be  issued  in  sums  of  not  less  than  one 
hundred  dollars,  and  shall  be  redeemed  by  the  school  district  issuing  the 
same  within  a  period  not  exceeding  thirty  years,  and  not  less  than  five 
years  from  the  date  of  issue,  and  shall  bear  interest  at  a  rate  not  exceed- 
ing six  per  centum  per  annum,  on  each  dollar  of  their  face,  which  interest 
shall  be  payable  annually  or  semi-annually,  the  rate  of  interest  to  be  de- 
termined by  the  board  of  school  directors.  Such  bonds  shall  be  numbered 
from  one  upwards,  and  be  headed  "Refunding  bonds  of  school  district 
number ,  in  the  county  of ,  state  of  Wyom- 
ing;" and  before  being  issued  shall  be  registered  by  the  treasurer  of  the 
county,  within  which  such  school  district  is  situated. 

[S.   L.   1893,   Ch.   10,   Sec.   2.] 

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REGISTRATION  OF  BOND. 

Sec.  583.  The  county  treasurer  of  each  county  shall  keep  a  book 
in  which  shall  be  registered  all  such  bonds,  showing  the  number  of  the 
bond,  the  date  of  issue,  amount,  number  of  coupons,  date  of  redemption, 
•date  of  registry  and  payment  of  interest  on  such  bonds,  which  book  shall, 
during  business  hours,  be  open  for  inspection. 

[S.   L.   1893,   Ch.  10,   Sec.  3.] 
BY  WHOM  SIGNED  AND  SALE  THEREOF. 

Sec.  584.  All  bonds  so  issued  shall  be  signed  by  the  presiding 
officer  of  the  board  of  directors  of  such  school  district,  countersigned 
by  the  county  treasurer  of  the  county  in  which  such  school  dis- 
trict is  situated,  and  attested  by  the  clerk  of  such  school  district,  with 
the  seal  of  such  school  district  attached;  and  none  of  such  bonds  shall  be 
sold  for  less  than  their  face  value,  and  shall  not  be  sold  until  thirty  days 
notice  shall  have  been  given  in  some  newspaper  of  general  circulation  in 
the  state  of  Wyoming. 

[S.  L.  1893,  Ch.  10,  Sec.  4.] 
COUPONS— WHERE  PAID. 

Sec.  585.  Said  bonds  shall  have  coupons  attached,  representing  the 
interest  to  be  paid  each  year,  and  the  coupons  representing  said  interest 
shall  be  detached  from  the  bonds  before  presentation  for  payment  of  the 
interest  for  the  year  corresponding,  and  upon  payment  shall  be  forthwith 
cancelled  by  the  county  treasurer,  by  writing  the  word  "cancelled"  across 
the  face  thereof.  The  interest  on  all  such  bonds  shall  be  payable  at  the 
office  of  the  county  treasurer  of  the  county  in  which  such  school  district 
issuing  such  bonds  is  situated,  or  in  any  place  designated  by  the  board 
of  school  directors  of  such  school  district. 

[S.  L.  1893,  Ch.  10,  Sec.  5.] 
TAX  TO  PAY  INTEREST  AND  PRINCIPAL. 

Sec.  586.  There  shall  be  annually  levied  by  the  board  of  county  com- 
missioners of  the  county,  within  wMch  is  situate  any  school  district  is- 
suing any  such  bonds,  as  are  herein  provided  for,  on  all  taxable  pro- 
perty within  the  limits  of  said  school  district,  a  tax  not  to  exceed  seven 
mills  on  the  dollar  of  valuation,  which  shall  be  know  as  the  "Refunding 

Bond  Fund  of  school  district  No "    Said  tax  shall  be  payable 

only  in  the  lawful  money  of  the  United  States,  and  shall  be  used  to  pay 
the  interest  and  principal  of  said  bonds,  and  for  no  other  pumose;  and 
said  tax  shall  be  collected  in  the  same  manner,  and  at  the  same  time  as 
the  county  taxes,  and  naid  into  the  county  treasury  by  the  collector  of 
taxes. 

[S.    L.    1893,    Ch.   10,    Sec.    6.] 
DUTY  OF  SCHOOL  DIRECTORS  AS  TO  REDEMPTION. 

Sec.  587.  The  board  of  school  directors  of  any  school  district,  which 
may  issue  bonds,  as  provided  in  this  article,  shall  each  year,  after  the 
tenth  year,  retire  as  many  of  such  bonds  as  can  be  redeemed,  with  the 
amount  of  said  bond  fund,  at  the  time  in  the  hands  of  the  county  treas- 
urer, and  in  all  such  cases,  such  bonds  shall  be  redeemed  by  the  payment 
of  number  one  first,  and  proceeding  continuously  upwards  with  those  out- 
standing. All  cancelled  bonds  shall  be  turned  over  to  the  board  of  direc- 
tors at  such  times  as  they  may  direct. 

[S.   L.   1893,   Ch.   10,   Sec.   7.] 
PROPERTY  IN  DISTRICT  PLEDGED  FOR  PAYMENT. 

Sec.  588.  All  taxable  property  of  any  school. district  issuing  bonds, 
as  herein  provided  for,  at  the  time  of  issuing  such  bonds,  shall  be  pledged 
for  the  payment  of  the  principal  and  interest  of  such  bonds  in  the 

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manner  herein  provided,  and  it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  use  or  divert  any 
portion  of  such  bond  fund  for  any  purpose  whatever,  except  for  the  pay- 
ment of  such  principal  and  interest. 

[S.,  L.  1893.  Ch.  10,  Sec.  8.] 
DUTY  OF  COUNTY  TREASURER. 

Sec.  589.  The  county  treasurer  of  each  county  in  which  any  school 
district,  issuing  bonds  as  herein  provided  for,  is  situated,  shall  have  cus- 
tody of  all  funds  realized  from  the  sale  of  such  bonds,  and  shall  pay  the 
same  out  only  upon  the  return  of  such  bonds,  for  the  redemption  of  which 
the  refunding  bonds,  for  the  issue  of  which  this  article  provides,  may 
have  been  issued.  Such  bonds  so  redeemed  shall  be  cancelled  by  the 
county  treasurer  and  turned  over  to  the  board  of  school  directors  of  the 
school  district  which  issued  said  redeemed  bonds  at  such  time  as  they 
may  direct.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  treasurer  to  give  a  separate 
bond  to  be  made  to  such  school  district,  in  such  sum  and  with  such  sure- 
ties as  the  board  of  county  commissioners  of  the  county  may  deem  proper 
and  sufficient,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  accounting  of  the  moneys  de- 
posited with  him  and  realized  from  the  sale  of  such  bonds  as  are  herein 
provided  for,  and  such  treasurer's  separate  bond  shall  be  and  remain  in 
the  custody  of  the  county  clerk  of  the  county  in  which  such  school  dis- 
trict is  situated. 

[S.  L.  1893,  Ch.  10,  Sec.  9.] 
FUNDS   REALIZED  FROM    SALE   OF   REFUNDING  BONDS. 

Sec.  59O.  Whenever  any  school  district  shall  have  issued  its  re- 
funding bonds,  and  the  funds  realized  from  the  sale  of  such  refunding 
bonds,  by  reason  of  such  bonds  selling  for  more  than  their  par  value,  are 
more  than  sufficient  to  redeem  all  the  bonds,  to  redeem  which  said  re- 
funding bonds  were  issued,  such  surplus  may  be  used,  First.  To  pay 
all  the  expense  of  issuing  and  disposing  of  said  refunding  bonds. 
Second.  Any  surplus  still  remaining  shall  be  turned  by  the  county  treas- 
urer into  the  "Refunding  Bond  Fund"  of  such  school  district,  and  used 
for  the  purposes  for  which  such  fund  is  used  as  provided  in  section  five 
hundred  and  eighty-six. 

[S.   L.    1895,    Ch.   10,   Sec.   1.] 
BALANCE  IN  THE  HANDS  OF  COUNTY  TREASURER— HOW  USED. 

Sec.  591.  Whenever  any  school  district  shall  have  issued  its  re- 
funding bonds  and  there  remains  in  the  hands  of  the  county  treasurer  of 
the  county  in  which  said  school  district  is  situated,  any  moneys  belong- 
ing to  the  funds  provided  by  law  for  the  payment  of  the  principal  or  in- 
terest, or  both,  of  the  bonds  to  redeem  which  said  refunding  bonds  were  is- 
sued, said  money  may  be  used,  First.  To  pay  any  deficiency  in  the  ex- 
penses of  issuing  and  disposing  of  said  refunding  bonds  that  cannot  be 
paid  by  the  surplus  realized  from  the  sale  of  said  refunding  bonds. 
Second.  Any  moneys  still  remaining  in  said  fund  shall  be  turned  by  said 
county  treasurer  into  the  "Refunding  Bond  Fund"  of  such  school  dis- 
trict and  used  for  the  purposes  for  which  such  fund  is  used  as  provided 
in  section  five  hundred  and  eighty-six. 

[S.    L.    1895,    Ch.    10,    Sec.    2.] 
SURPLUS— HOW  USED. 

Sec.  592.  The  county  treasurer  of  any  county  in  which  is  situated 
a  school  district  that  may  issue  refunding  bonds,  is  hereby  authorized 
and  required  to  pay  out  the  surplus  moneys  derived  from  the  sale  of  any 
such  refunding  bonds,  or  the  surplus  moneys  remaining  in  the  old  fund 
for  the  expenses  incurred  by  such  school  district  in  issuing  and  dispos- 
ing of  such  refunding  bonds  on  orders  of  the  school  board  of  such  school 

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district,  which  orders  shall  state  on  their  face  that  the  money  to  be  so 
paid  was  a  legitimate  expense  incurred  in  the  issue  and  sale  of  such  re- 
funding bonds.  When  all  of  such  expense  has  been  paid  by  the  issue  of 
such  orders  or  otherwise,  the  board  of  directors  shall,  over  the  seal  of 
said  district,  notify  said  county  treasurer  of  the  fact  that  all  the  ex- 
pense incurred  in  the  issue  and  sale  of  such  refunding  bonds  has  been 
paid,  wrhereupon  said  treasurer  shall  immediately  transfer  all  moneys 
remaining  in  his  hands  applicable  to  the  payment  of  interest  or  principal 
of  the  old  bonds  to  the  ''Refunding  Bond  Fund"  of  such  school  district; 
Provided,  howrever.  That  all  the  bonds  to  redeem  which  said  refunding 
bonds  were  issued  have  already  been  paid. 

[S.  L.  1895,  Ch.  10,  Sec.  3.J 


ARTICLE  V. 


PUBLIC    KINDERGARTEN. 


Sec.  593.  Power  of  trustees  to  establish 
kindergarten. 

Sec.  594.  Shall  be  part  of  school  system- 
Teachers. 


Sec.  595.    Law  not  changed  in  reference  to- 

apportionment. 
Sec.  596.    How  carried  into  effect. 


POWER  OF  TRUSTEES  TO  ESTABLISH  KINDERGARTEN. 

Sec.  593.  The  board  of  trustees  of  any  school  district  in  this  state 
shall  have  powrer  to  establish  and  maintain  free  kindergarten  schools  in 
connection  with  the  public  schools  of  their  district,  for  tlie  instruction  of 
children  residing  in  such  district  and  between  the  ages  of  four  and  six 
years,  and  shall  establish  such  courses  of  training,  study  and  discipline 
and  such  rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  of  such  kindergarten 
schools  as  said  board  may  deem  advisable;  Provided,  That  the  cost  of 
establishing  and  maintaining  such  kindergarten  schools  shall  be  paid 
from  the  special  school  fund  of  said  school  district,  and  the  gross  sum  to 
be  so  expended  by  the  said  board  for  such  kindergarten  schools  shall  be 
annually  fixed  and  determined  by  the  qualified  electors  of  such  district 
at  the  annual  meeting  of  such  electors. 

[S.  L.   1895,   Ch.  50,   Sec.   1.] 
SHALL  BE  PART  OF  SCHOOL  SYSTEM-TEACHERS. 

Sec.  594.  The  said  kindergarten  schools  shall  be  a  part  of  the  public 
school  system  and  governed  as  far  as  practicable  in  the  same  manner  and 
by  the  same  officers  as  is  now,  or  hereafter  may  be  provided  by  law,  for 
the  government  of  the  other  public  schools  of  this  state;  Provided,  how- 
ever, that  teachers  of  the  kindergarten  schools  shall  be  the  holders  of 
certificates  or  diplomas  from  some  reputable  institution  for  the  training 
of  kindergarten  teachers,  and  shall  pass  such  other  examination  and  pos- 
sess such  other  qualifications  as  may  be  required  by  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  the  district  employing  them. 

[S.   L.   1895,   Ch.  50,   Sec.   1.] 
LAW  NOT  CHANGED  IN  REFERENCE  TO  APPORTIONMENT. 

Sec.  595.  Nothing  in  this  article  shall  be  so  construed  as  to,  in  any 
manner,  change  the  law,  as  it  now  exists,  with  reference  to  the  taking  of 
the  census  of  the  school  population,  or  the  apportionment  of  the  state 
and  county  school  funds  among  the  several  counties  and  districts  in  this 
state. 

[S.  L.  1895,  Ch.  50,  Sec.  1.] 
HOW   CARRIED   INTO  EFFECT. 

Sec.  596.  That  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect  the  provis- 
ions of  this  article,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  qualified  electors 

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EDUCATIONAL   INSTITUTIONS. 


DIV.   1      TL.   6 


of  any  school  district  in  the  state  at  the  annual  meeting  held  under  the 
provisions  of  existing  law,  to  vote  such  sum  of  money  as  may  be  neces- 
sary to  establish  and  maintain  such  kindergarten  schools,  during  the 
school  year  next  following  such  meeting,  such  sum  in  the  aggregate  not 
to  exceed  one  mill  upon  the  dollar  of  the  valuation  of  the  property  in  the 
district,  as  determined  by  the  next  preceding  annual  assessment  thereof 
for  the  purposes  of  taxation,  the  same  to  be  certified,  levied,  collected 
and  disbursed  in  the  same  manner  as  is  now  provided  by  law  with  respect 
to  the  special  school  funds  of  the  several  school  districts  in  this  state. 

[S.   L.  1895,   Ch.   50,   Sec.   2.] 


ARTICLE  VI. 

FREE   TEXT   BOOKS. 


Sec.  597. 
Sec.  598. 
Sec.  599. 


Sec.  601. 
Sec.  602. 


Duty  of  school  directors. 
Publishers  must  file  bond. 
Books—  Paid       for      from      public 

school  land  income  fund. 
Sec.  600.    Books  paid  for  by  order  on  dis- 

trict treasurer. 

Orders  from  what  funds  paid. 
Publisher    becoming    member    of 

trust   nullifies    contract. 


Sec.  603.  Duty  superintendent  of  public  in- 
struction. 

Sec.  604.  Superintendent  must  furnish  form 
of  contract. 

Sec.  605.  Attorney  general  must  investigate 
violation  of  contracts. 

Sec.  606.    Books  property  of  district. 

Sec.  607.    Pupils  may  purchase  books. 


DUTY  OF  SCHOOL  DIRECTORS. 

Sec.  597.  Boards  of  school  directors  in  city  or  county  are  hereby 
empowered,  and  it  is  made  their  duty,  to  purchase  all  text  books  neces- 
sary for  the  schools  of  such  city,  town  or  district;  and  they  are  further 
authorized  to  enter  into  contract,  as  hereinafter  provided,  with  the  pub- 
lishers of  such  books  for  a  term  of  years,  not  to  exceed  five;  provided, 
that  the  contract  prices  of  such  books  shall  not  exceed  the  lowest  price 
then  granted  to  any  dealer,  state,  county,  township,  school  district,  or 
other  individual  or  corporation  in  the  United  States,  to  be  determined  as 
hereinafter  provided;  and,  provided  further,  that  such  contract  shall 
guarantee  to  such  districts  any  further  reduction  that  may  be  granted 
elsewhere  during  the  life  of  such  contract. 

[S.   L.   1899,   Ch.  29,   Sec.  1.] 
PUBLISHERS  MUST  FILE  BOND. 

Sec.  598.  Before  any  publisher  of  school  books  shall  be  permitted 
to  enter  into  contract  with  any  school  district  under  the  provisions  of 
this  article,  he  shall  file  with  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruc- 
tion, to  be  approved  by  him,  a  good  and  sufficient  bond  in  the  sum  of  two 
thousand  to  twenty  thousand  dollars,  which  amount  shall  be  fixed  by  the 
state  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  for  the  faithful  performance 
of  the  conditions  of  such  contracts,  and  the  observance  of  the  require- 
ments of  this  article;  and  such  publisher  shall  also  file  with  the  state  super- 
intendent of  public  instruction,  a  sworn  statement  of  the  lowest  prices 
for  which  his  series  of  text  books  are  sold  anywhere  in  the  United  States ; 
and  a  failure  to  file  such  bond  and  sworn  statement  of  prices  shall  be  a 
good  and  valid  defense  on  the  part  of  the  district  against  payment  for 
any  books  that  may  be  sold  by  such  publisher  prior  to  the  date  of  filing 
such  bond  and  sworn  statement  of  prices;  and  all  such  contracts  to 
which  such  publisher  is  a  party  made  prior  to  filing  such  bond  and  sworn 
statement  of  prices,  shall  be  null  and  void. 

[S.   L.   1899,   Ch.   29,   Sec.   2.] 
BOOKS— PAID  FOR  FROM  PUBLIC  SCHOOL  LAND  INCOME  FUND. 

Sec.  599.  The  books  to  be  purchased  under  the  provisions  of  this 
article  shall  be  paid  for  by  the  directors  of  the  different  school  districts  of 

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the  state,  out  of  the  public  school  land  income  fund,  when  the  same  shall 
be  distributed  to  such  districts  annually. 

[S.   L.  1899,  Ch.  29,  Sec.  11.] 
BOOKS  PAID  FOR  BY  ORDER  ON  DISTRICT  TREASURER. 

Sec.  600.  For  the  purpose  of  paying  for  school  books,  the  school  dis- 
trict officers  may  draw  an  order  on  the  district  treasurer  for  the  amount 
of  school  books  ordered. 

ORDERS— FROM  WHAT  FUNDS  PAID. 

Sec.  601.  The  district  treasurer  shall  pay  orders  drawn  by  school 
district  officers  for  the  purpose  of  school  books  out  of  any  funds  in  his 
hands  belonging  to  the  district,  except  the  money  belonging  to  the 
teachers'  fund. 

[S.    L.    1899,    Ch.    29,    Sec.    4.] 
PUBLISHER   BECOMING  MEMBER  OF    TRUST  NULLIFIES   CONTRACT. 

Sec.  602.  Any  contract  entered  into  under  the  provisions  of  this 
article  with  any  publisher  who  shall  hereafter  become  a  party  to  any  com- 
bination or  trust  for  the  purpose  of  raising  the  price  of  school  textbooks 
shall,  at  the  wish  of  the  school  board  of  the  district  using  such  books, 
become  null  and  void. 

[S.    L.    1899,    Ch.    29,    Sec.    5.] 
DUTY  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION. 

Sec.  603.  The  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction  shall, 
within  thirty  days  after  the  tiling  of  the  hereinbefore  mentioned  sworn 
statement  of  prices  of  text  books,  have  the  same  printed  and  forward  a 
sufficient  number  of  certified  copies  of  the  same  to  each  of  the  county 
superintendents  of  the  state  to  furnish  all  the  school  districts  of  such 
county  with  one  copy  each;  and  the  county  superintendent  shall  immed- 
iately after  receiving  said  certified  copies  of  prices  of  books  send  or  de- 
liver one  of  such  certified  copies  to  the  directors  or  secretary  of  each 
school  district  or  board  of  education  in  such  county,  to  be  filed  as  a  part 
of  the  records  of  such  district ;  and  he  shall  also  file  one  of  said  certified 
copies  of  prices  in  his  office  as  a  part  of  the  records  of  said  office. 

[S.  L.  1899,  Ch.  29,  Sec.  6.] 
SUPERINTENDENT   MUST  FURNISH  FORM  OF  CONTRACT. 

Sec.  604.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  superintendent  of  public 
instruction  to  prepare  and  have  printed  a  form  of  contract  between  dis- 
trict boards  and  publishers  of  school  books  and  to  furnish  the  same 
through  the  county  superintendent  to  the  several  district  boards  of  the 
state;  and  no  other  form  of  contract  shall  be  used  by  such  district  boards 
and  publishers. 

[S.  L.  1899,  Ch.  29,  Sec.  7.] 

ATTORNEY     GENERAL     MUST     INVESTIGATE  VIOLATION     OF     CON- 
TRACTS. 

Sec.  605.  Upon  the  filing  of  a  written  complaint  with  the  state' sup- 
erintendent of  public  instruction  by  the  officers  of  any  district  board, 
charging  any  publisher  with  violating  the  conditions  of  such  contract  as 
hereinbefore  mentioned,  the  attorney  general  is  hereby  instructed,  and  it 
shall  be  his  duty,  to  investigate  the  same,  and  if  he  finds  probable  cause 
for  action,  he  shall  immediately  begin  proceedings  in  the  name  of  the 
state  to  enforce  the  liability  on  the  bond  hereinbefore  mentioned. 

[S.  L.  1899,  Ch.  29,  Sec.  8.] 
BOOKS  PROPERTY  OF  DISTRICT. 

Sec.  606.  All  books  purchased  by  district  boards,  as  hereinbefore 
mentioned,  shall  be  held  as  the  property  of  the  district,  and  loaned  to 

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EDUCATIONAL  INSTITUTIONS. 


DIV.  1     TL.  6 


pupils  of  the  school  while  pursuing  a  course  of  study  therein,  free  of 
charge;  but  the  district  boards  shall  hold  such  pupils  responsible  for  any 
damage  to,  loss  of,  or  failure  to  return  such  books  at  the  time  and  to  the 
person  that  may  be  designated  by  the  board  of  such  district. 

[S.  L.  1899,  Ch.  29,  Sec.  9.] 
PUPILS  MAY  PURCHASE  BOOKS. 

Sec.  6O7.  The  provisions  of  this  article  shall  include  all  school 
supplies;  provided,  that  nothing  in  this  article  shall  be  construed 
to  prohibit  any  pupil  or  parent  from  purchasing  from  the  board 
such  books  as  may  be  necessary,  at  cost  to  the  district;  provided 
further,  that  the  board  may  designate  some  local  dealer  to  handle  books 
for  the  district  with  such  an  increase  above  contract  price  to  pay  cost  of 
transportation  and  handling,  as  may  be  agreed  upon  between  said  board 
and  said  dealer. 

[S.  L.  1899,  Ch.  29,  Sec.  10.] 


ARTICLE  VII. 


MISCELLANEOUS  PROVISIONS. 


Sec.  608.    Offenses    defined— Penalty. 

Sec.  609.    School   week   and   month    defined. 

Sec.  610.  School  officers  shall  not  be  agents 
for  school  supplies — Penalty. 

Sec.  611.  State  treasurer  shall  keep  school 
fund. 

Sec.  612.  Physiology  and  hygiene  shall  be 
taught. 

Sec.  613.  Failure  to  comply  with  last  sec- 
tion—Penalty. 

Sec.  614.  Discrimination  on  account  of  sex 
or  religious  belief  prohibited. 

Sec.  615.    Examinations   required. 

Sec.  616.    Teacher's  report. 

Sec.  617.  Refusal  to  deliver  records  to  suc- 
cessor— Penalty. 

Sec.  618.    Employment  of  counsel. 

Sec.  619.    Collection  and  disposition  of  fines. 

Sec.  620.  Officer  failing  to  pay  over  money 
—Penalty. 


Sec.  621.  Effect  of-  change  in  county  boun- 
daries on  school  districts. 

Sec.  622.  State  treasurer  authorized  to  re- 
ceive donations  for  schools. 

Sec.  623.  Liability  of  treasurer  for  school 
money. 

Sec.  624.  School  board  may  establish 
manual  training  schools. 

Sec.  625.  Land  income  funds  available, 
when. 

Sec.  626.    Teachers'    certificates. 

Sec.  627.    Subjects  of  examinations. 

Sec.  628.    Time  certificate  is  good. 

Sec.  629.    Examining  board. 

Sec.  630.  Applicants  for  professional  certi- 
ficates. 

Sec.  631.  Examination  by  county  superin- 
tendents. 


OFFENSES  DEFINED— PENALTY. 

Sec.  6O8.  Any  person  who  shall  use  insulting  and  abusive  language 
to  and  toward  any  teacher  in  or  about  any  public  school  house,  or  who 
shall  wilfully  disturb  any  public  school  or  district  meeting,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and,  upon  conviction,  shall  be  fined  in 
any  sum  not  less  than  five  dollars,  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dol- 
lars. 

Any  person  who  shall  wilfully  break,  cut,  deface,  despoil,  injure, 
damage  or  destroy  any  school  property,  or  who  shall  cut,  mark,  write  or 
otherwise  place  or  put  on,  or  cause  to  be  placed  or  put  upon,  any  school 
property,  any  language,  or  pictures  or  figures  or  signs  of  an  obscene 
character,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and,  upon  conviction 
thereof,  shall  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars.  The  said  fines  shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the 
school  district  in  which  the  offense  was  committed. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sub.  Div.  2,  Sees.  1-2.] 
SCHOOL  WEEK  AND  MONTH  DEFINED. 

Sec.  6O9.  For  the  purposes  of  this  chapter,  a  school  week  shall  con- 
sist of  five  days;  and  a  school  month  shall  consist  of  all  the  days  of  a  cal- 
endar month  except  Saturdays  and  Sundays,  and  legal  holidays. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sub.  Div.  3,  Sec.  1.] 
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CH.  3      ART.  7  MISCELLANEOUS    PROVISIONS.  §610 

SCHOOL  OFFICERS  SHALL  NOT  BE  AGENTS  FOR  SCHOOL  SUPPLIES- 
PENALTY. 

Sec.  61 0.  Neither  the  state  superintendent,  or  any  person  in  his 
office,  nor  any  county  superintendent,  nor  school  district  officer,  nor  any 
officer  or  teacher  connected  with  any  public  school,  shall  act  as  agent  or 
solicitor  for  the  sale  of  any  school  books,  maps,  charts,  school  library 
books,  school  furniture,  apparatus  or  stationery,  or  furnish  any  assistance 
to,  or  receive  any  reward  therefor,  from  any  author,  publisher,  bookseller 
or  dealer,  doing  the  same.  Every  person  violating  this  section  shall  for- 
feit not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars  for  each  of- 
fense, and  be  liable  to  removal  from  office  therefor. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sub.  Div.  3,  Sec.  2.] 
STATE  TREASURER  SHALL  KEEP  SCHOOL  FUND. 

Sec.  61 1 .  The  state  treasurer  shall  keep  a  separate  fund  to  be 
known  as  the  "school  fund,"  and  all  moneys  appropriated  for  school  pur- 
poses shall  be  kept  in  such  fund. 

[S.  L.  1888,  Ch.  72,  Sub.  Div.  3,  Sec.  3.] 
PHYSIOLOGY  AND  HYGIENE  SHALL  BE  TAUGHT. 

S<H-.  612.  Physiology  and  hygiene,  which  shall  include  in  each  di- 
vision of  the  subject  special  reference  to  the  effects  of  alcohol  and  nar- 
cotics upon  the  human  system,  shall  be  included  in  the  branches  taught 
in  the  common  schools  of  the  state,  and  shall  be  introduced  and  taught, 
either  orally  or  by  text  book,  in  all  departments  of  the  public  schools 
above  the  second  primary  grade,  and  in  all  educational  institutions  sup- 
iiorlcd  wholly  or  in  part  by  the  state. 

[R.  S.  1887,  Sec.  3939. ] 
FAILURE  TO  COMPLY  WITH  LAST  SECTION— PENALTY. 

Sec.  61 :5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  several  county  and  city  super- 
intendents of  schools  in  the  state,  and  of  the  secretary  of  the  board  of 
directors  of  all  other  educational  institutions  receiving  aid  from  the  state, 
to  report  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction  any  failure 
or  neglect  on  the  part  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  any  school  dis- 
trict, or  the  board  of  directors  of  any  educational  institution  receiving 
aid  from  the  state,  to  make  proper  provision  for  the  teaching  of  the 
bianchcs  mentioned  in  the  last  preceding  section  in  any  or  all  of  the 
schools  or  other  educational  institutions  under  their  charge,  or  over 
which  they  have  jurisdiction,  and  such  failure  on  the  part  of  the  above 
mentioned  officers,  so  reported  and  satisfactorily  proved,  shall  be  deemed 
sufficient  cause  for  withholding  the  warrant  for  the  district  appropria- 
tion of  school  money  to  which  such  school  district  or  educational  institu- 
tion would  otherwise  be  entitled. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3970.] 

DISCRIMINATION  ON  ACCOUNT  OF  SEX  OR  RELIGIOUS  BELIEF  PRO- 
HIBITED. 

Sec.  614.  In  the  employment  of  teachers  in  the  public  schools  in 
this  state,  no  discrimination  "shall  be  nade  in  the  question  of  pay  on  ac- 
count of  sex,  nor  on  account  of  the  religious  belief  of  the  applicant  for  the 
position  of  teacher,  when  the  persons  are  equally  qualified,  and  the  labor 
is  the  same. 

[S.   L.   1890-91,    Ch.    21.] 
EXAMINATIONS  REQUIRED. 

Sec.  615.  No  certificate  shall  be  granted  hereafter  to  any  person  to 
tench  in  the  schools  of  Wyoming,  who  shall  not  pass  a  satisfactory  exam- 
ination in  physiology  and  hygiene,  with  special  reference  to  the  effects  of 
alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and  narcotics  upon  the  human  system. 

[R.  S.  1887,  Sec.  3972.] 

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§616  EDUCATIONAL   INSTITUTIONS.  DIV.  1      TL.   6 

TEACHER'S    REPORT. 

Sec.  616.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  teacher  of  every  district  school, 
or  graded  school,  to  make  out  and  file  with  the  district  clerk,  at  the  ex- 
piration of  each  term  of  the  school,  a  full  report  of  the  whole  number  of 
scholars  admitted  to  the  school  during  such  term,  distinguishing  between 
male  and  female,  the  names  of  such  scholars,  the  number  of  days  each 
scholar  attended  the  same,  the  aggregate  number  of  days  attendance  of 
said  schoolsj  the  text  books  used,  the  branches  taught  and  the  number  of 
pupils  engaged  in  the  study  of  each  of  said  branches.  Any  teacher  who 
shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  comply  with  the  requirements  of  this  section, 
shall  forfeit  his  or  her  wages  for  teaching  such  school,  at  the  discretion 
of  the  district  board. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3973.] 
.  People  ex  rel  vs.  Dolan,  5  Wyo.  245. 

REFUSAL  TO  DELIVER  RECORDS  TO  SUCCESSOR— PENALTY. 

Sec.  617.  Every  school  district  clerk,  or  treasurer,  who  shall  neglect 
or  refuse  to  deliver  to  their  successors  in  office,  all  records  and  books,  be- 
longing severally  to  their  offices,  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  not  exceeding 
five  hundred  dollars. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3974.] 
EMPLOYMENT  OF  COUNSEL. 

Sec.  618.  In  all  cases  where  suits  may  be  instituted,  by,  or  against, 
any  of  the  school  officers  contemplated  or  created  by  this  title,  to  enforce 
any  of  the  provisions  herein  contained,  counsel  may  be  employed,  if  nec- 
essary, by  the  officer  instituting  the  suit,  and  the  expense  of  the  suit  shall 
be  borne  by  the  district,  county  or  state  in  whose  name,  or  against  whom, 
the  same  may  be  instituted. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3975.] 
COLLECTION  AND  DISPOSITION  OF  FINES. 

Sec.  619.  All  fines,  penalties  and  forfeitures  provided  by  this  title 
may  be  recovered  by  action  in  the  name  of  the  people  of  the  state  of  Wy- 
oming for  the  use  of  the  proper  school  district  or  county,  and  when  they 
accrue,  belong  to  the  respective  districts  or  counties  in  which  the  same 
may  have  accrued;  and  the  treasurer  of  such  districts,  and  the  county 
commissioners  of  such  counties  are  hereby  authorized  to  receive  and 
apply  the  proceeds  of  such  forfeitures  as  the  interest  of  the  permanent 
fund  is  now,  or  mav  hereafter  be,  applied. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.   3976.] 
People  ex  rel  vs.  Dolan,  5  Wyo.  245. 

OFFICER  FAILING  TO  PAY  OVER  MONEY-PENALTY. 

Sec.  62O.  Any  officer  or  person  collecting  or  receiving  any  fines,  for- 
feitures or  other  moneys  and  refusing  and  failing  to  pay  over  the  same  as 
required  by  law,  shall  forfeit  double  the  amount  so  withheld,  and  interest 
thereon  at  the  rate  of  five  per  cent,  per  month  during  the  time  of  so  with- 
holding the  same. 

[R.    S.    1887,   Sec.   3D77.] 
People  ex  rel  vs.  Dolan,  5  Wyo.  245. 

EFFECT  OF  CHANGE  IN  COUNTY  BOUNDARIES  ON  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS. 

Sec.  621.  If  by  any  act  of  the  state  legislature  changing  the  boun- 
dary line  or  lines  of  any  county  or  counties,  or  forming  new  counties  from 
counties  already  formed,  any  legally  organized  school  district  is  or 
has  been  separated  from  the  county  to  which  it  then  belonged,  and 
is  or  has  been  joined  to  another  county,  the  members  of  the  school 
board  of  such  school  district  so  separated  from  one  county  and 
joined  to  another  county,  shall  hold  their  respective  offices  until 
the  next  annual  school  election  following  said  change  in  county 

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boundaries;  and  until  such  annual  school  election  said  school  board 
may  draw  the  public  school  funds  for  paying  teachers,  or  other 
necessary  legal  school  expenses  from  the  school  treasury  of  the  county 
to  which  said  school  district  formerly  belonged,  and  in  the  same  way  and 
manner  as  said  board  would  have  drawn  and  expended  said  public  moneys 
had  no  change  in  county  boundaries  been  made. 

[R.   S.  1887,   Sec.  3978.] 
Baldwin  vs.  Wickman,  3  Wyo.  208. 

STATE  TREASURER     AUTHORIZED      TO     RECEIVE     DONATIONS  FOR 
SCHOOLS. 

Sec.  «22.  Whenever  the  state  of  Wyoming  shall  be  entitled  to  re- 
ceive any  moneys  or  funds  from  the  United  States  of  America,  or  from 
any  other  source  or  authority,  to  be  expended  for  the  benefit  of  the  public 
schools  of  the  state,  or  held  or  in  any  manner  applied  for  their  benefit, 
the  state  treasurer  is  hereby  authorized  to  receive  and  receipt  for  such 
moneys  or  funds,  and  to  make  such  application  and  use  of  the  same  as 
may  be  required  by  law.  Should  such  moneys  or  funds  be  donated  to  the 
state,  and  should  the  act  of  donation  require  such  moneys  or  funds  to  be 
applied  or  held,  or  used  in  a  particular  manner,  they  shall  be  so  applied. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3981.] 
LIABILITY  OF  TREASURER  FOR  SCHOOL  MONEY. 

Sec.  <>2tf.  The  state  treasurer  shall  faithfully  account  for  all  moneys 
or  funds  received  pursuant  to  the  foregoing  section,  and  he  and  his  sure- 
ties upon  his  official  bond  shall  be  liable  for  any  failure  to  so  account  for 
such  moneys  or  funds. 

[R.    S.    1887,    Sec.    3982.] 
SCHOOL  BOARD  MAY  ESTABLISH  MANUAL  TRAINING  SCHOOLS. 

Sec.  624.  The  school  board  of  any  district  in  the  state  shall  have 
power  to  establish  and  locate  industrial  and  manual  training  schools,  in 
connection  with  the  public  schools  of  said  district. 

[S.    L.    1895,    Ch.    88.] 
LAND  INCOME  FUNDS  AVAILABLE— WHEN. 

Sec.  (>25.  On  the  fifteenth  day  of  January,  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety-nine,  and  on  the  fifteenth  day  of  January  of  each  second  year  there- 
after, any  and  all  moneys  which  shall  be  in  either  of  the  following  land 
income  funds  shall  become  available,  and  may  be  used  for  the  following 
purposes,  respectively: 

First — The  "Deaf,  Dumb  and  Blind  Land  Income  Fund,"  for  the  sup- 
port, maintenance  and  education  of  all  such  deaf,  dumb  and  blind  per- 
sons as  are  or  may  hereafter  become  charges  upon  the  state. 

Second — The  "Insane  Asylum  Land  Income  Fund,"  for  the  support 
and  maintenance  of  the  state  insane  asylum  and  the  inmates  thereof. 

Third — The  "Fish  Hatchery  Land  Income  Fund,"  for  the  support  and 
maintenance  of  the  state  fish  hatchery  in  Albany  county. 

ronrtli — The  "Penitentiary  in  Albany  County  Land  Income  Fund," 
for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  the  penitentiary  located  in  Albany 
county,  and  the  care  and  subsistence  of  the  convicts  therein. 

/.;/t7/, — The  "University  Land  Income  Fund,"  for  the  support  and 
maintenance  of  the  state  university  at  Laramie,  the  same  to  be  paid  by 
the  state  treasurer  to  the  treasurer  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  state 
university  upon  the  warrant  of  the  state  auditor  to  be  issued  upon  request 
of  said  boa i-d  of  trustees. 

X /./•/// The  "State,  Charitable,  Educational,  Penal  and  Reformatory 

Institutions  Land  Income  Fund,"  for  the  custody,  support  and  mainten- 

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ance  of  state  convicts  and  persons  confined  at  the  expense  of  the  state  in 
reformatory  institutions  within  or  without  the  state. 

Seventh — The  "Penal,  Reformatory  or  Educational  Institution  in  Car- 
bon County  Land  Income  Fund,"  for  and  toward  the  completion,  furnish- 
ing and  maintenance  of  the  penitentiary  at  Rawlins,  in  Carbon  county. 

Eighth — The  "Miners'  Hospital  Land  Income  Fund,"  for  the  support 
and  maintenance  of  the  Wyoming  General  Hospital,  at  Rock  Springs. 

Ninth — The  "Public  Buildings  at  the  Capital  Land  Income  Fund," 
for  the  care,  repair,  maintenance  and  furnishing  of  the  capitol  build- 
ing. 

Tenth — The  "Poor  Farm  in  Fremont  County  Land  Income  Fund,"  for 
the  care,  repair,  maintenance  and  improvement  of  the  poor  farm  in  Fre- 
mont County. 

On  the  fifteenth  day  of  January,  nineteen  hundred  and  one,  and  on 
the  fifteenth  day  of  January  of  each  second  year  thereafter,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  state  treasurer  to  make  a  report  to  the  governor  and  to  the 
senate  and  house  of  reoresentatives,  showing  the  amount  of  money  in 
each  of  the  said  land  income  funds  on  that  date. 

[S.    L.    1897,    Ch.    30.] 
TEACHERS'  CERTIFICATES. 

Sec.  626.  There  are  hereby  established  four  grades  of  teachers'  cer- 
tificates; one  to  be  known  as  a  state  or  professional  certificate,  and  county 
certificates  of  the  first,  second  and  third  grades,  which  certificates  shall 
show  the  branches  in  which  the  holder  has  been  examined,  and  his  or  her 
relative  attainments  in  each  branch.  No  person  shall  receive  a  certificate 
who  is  known  to  the  examining  officer,  or  board,  to  be  of  immoral  charac- 
ter, who  is  deficient  in  learning  or  ability  to  teach,  or  who  does  not  write 
and  speak  the  English  language  with  facility  and  correctness. 

[S.    L.    1899,    Ch.    70,    Sec.    1.] 
SUBJECTS  OF  EXAMINATION. 

Sec.  627.  Every  applicant  for  a  certificate  shall  be  examined  in  the 
subjects  hereinafter  mentioned,  for  the  several  grades,  respectively,  as 
follows :  For  the  third  grade,  in  orthoepy,  orthography,  reading,  penman- 
ship, arithmetic,  language  lessons,  English  grammar,  geography,  civil 
government,  the  history  and  constitution  of  the  United  States,  the  consti- 
tution of  the  state  of  Wyoming,  physiology  and  hygiene,  and  the  theory 
and  practice  of  teaching.  If  the  applicants  shall  pass  an  examination  in 
these  branches  with  an  average  of  seventy  per  cent.,  they  shall  re- 
ceive a  third  grade  certificate.  If  the  markings  of  said  applicant  shall 
average  of  eighty-five  per  cent.,  a  second  grade  certificate  shall  be  is- 
sued. For  the  first  grade  certificate,  the  applicant  shall  pass  an  examin- 
ation in  all  of  the  foregoing  branches  required  in  examination  for  second 
and  third  grade  certificates,  and  also  in  rhetoric,  elementary  algebra,  nat- 
ural philosophy,  plane  geometry,  English  literature,  political  economy, 
physical  geography  and  bookkeeping. 

[S.  L.  1899,  Ch.  70,  Sec.  2.J 
TIME  CERTIFICATE  IS  GOOD. 

Sec.  628.  The  third  grade  certificate  shall  entitle  the  holder  to 
teach  for  the  period  of  one  year;  and  a  third  grade  certificate  shall  not  be 
issued  to  any  teacher  more  than  once;  the  second  grade  certificate  shall 
entitle  the  holder  to  teach  for  one  year;  the  first  grade  certificate  shall 
entitle  the  holder  to  teach  for  a  period  of  two  years;  and  the  state  or  pro- 
fessional certificate  shall  entitle  the  holder  to  teach  in  the  graded  and 
high  schools  of  the  state  for  a  period  of  five  years,  at  the  end  of  which 
time,  if  the  teacher  has  been  actively  engaged  for  two  years  prior  thereto 

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in  educational  work,  the  state  superintendent,  or  the  state  board  of  exam- 
iners and  the  state  superintendent,  may  endorse  said  certificate,  and  this 
endorsement  shall  entitle  the  holder  to  teach  for  another  period  of  five 
years. 

[S.   L.   1899,   Ch.   70,   Sec.   2.] 
EXAMINING  BOARD. 

Sec.  621).  There  shall  be  established  in  the  state  of  Wyoming  a  state 
board  of  examiners,  which  shall  be  composed  of  three  members  to  be 
selected  and  appointed  by  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction  from 
the  principals  of  high  schools  and  city  superintendents  of  schools  in  the 
state  and  the  faculty  of  the  state  university.  This  board  shall  serve  with- 
out compensation  other  than  actual  expenses  and  transportation.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  said  board  to  meet  at  some  convenient  place  and  pre- 
pare, for  the  use  of  the  county  superintendents  of  the  various  counties, 
uniform  examination  questions,  and  they  may  prescribe  rules  and  regula- 
tions for  the  taking  of  such  examinations.  They  shall  have  the  power  to 
hold  examinations,  and  on  their  recommendation,  the  superintendent  of 
public  instruction  shall  issue  professional  certificates  as  provided  in  this 
article. 

[S.   L.  1899,   Ch.  70,  Sec.  3.] 
APPLICANTS  FOR  PROFESSIONAL  CERTIFICATES. 

Sec.  63O.  Applicants  for  professional  certificates  shall  show  them- 
selves to  be  competent  to  teach  all  the  branches  required  for  the  issuing 
of  a  first  grade  certificate  in  the  counties,  and,  in  addition  thereto,  shall 
show  that  they  are  qualified  to  teach  all  of  the  branches  usually  taught 
in  the  high  schools  and  academic  courses. 

[S.   L.   1899,    Ch.   70,   Sec.   4.] 
EXAMINATIONS  BY  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENTS. 

Sec.  6ttl.  County  superintendents  shall  hold  regular  examinations 
in  their  counties  at  least  twice  in  each  year,  and  one  of  such  examinations 
shall  be  held  at  the  close  of  the  teachers'  institute  held  in  their  respective 
counties;  the  county  superintendent  may  require  all  teachers  to  pass  a 
written  examination  prepared  by  the  state  board  of  examiners,  and,  where 
such  examination  is  in  writing,  shall  mark  and  file  said  written  examina- 
tion papers  in  his  office,  there  to  be  kept  for  the  period  of  one  year  where 
it  may  be  seen  by  any  school  board  desiring  to  examine  the  same.  Pro- 
vided, that  where  a  teacher  has  had  professional  training  in  some  reputa- 
ble normal  training  school  for  teachers,  has  taught  successfully,  and  pre- 
sents a  diploma  or  other  sufficient  evidence  of  his  or  her  qualifications 
to  teach,  the  county  suDerintendent  may  issue  a  certificate  to  such  person 
stating  the  facts  and  setting  forth  the  qualifications  of  such  teacher.  And 
provided  further,  that  all  persons  who  are  graduates  of  the  University  of 
Wyoming,  and  upon  whom  have  been  conferred  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts;  or  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science;  or  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Pedagogy,  or  Didactics;  shall  be  exempt  from  taking  the  teachers'  ex- 
amination for  certificates  of  the  first,  second  and  third  grades,  as  provided 
in  this  article,  and  upon  the  presentation  of  their  diploma  granted  by  the 
University  of  Wyoming  to  the  county  superintendent  of  schools,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  such  county  superintendents  to  issue  to  such  person  a  first 
grade  certificate. 

[S.    L.   1899,    Ch.    70,    Sec.   5.] 


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INVESTMENT  OF  LAND  FUNDS. 

Sec.  88.  All  permanent  funds  arising  from  the  sale  of  state  lands 
and  any  permanent  addition  thereto  may,  and  whenever  practicable  shall 
be  invested  by  the  treasurer  of  the  state,  with  the  approval  of  the  gov- 
ernor and  attorney  general,  in  bonds  of  the  United  States  or  of  the  state 
of  Wyoming,  or  in  bonds  issued  by  school  districts  within  this  state,  or 
registered  county  bonds  of  the  state,  or  interest  bearing  warrants  of  this 
state.  The  interest  only  shall  be  used  for  the  purpose  for  which  the  grant 
of  lands  was  made. 

[S.  L.  1895,  Ch.   67,  Sec.  1.] 


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